17-01-2011, 08:45 PM
I followed a link to a whistle blower who refers to the missing 2.3 trillion dollars. This amount is staggering, but the statement is deceptive.
What were these missing trillions supposed to be spent on? Are most of the pentagon's budget line items in appropriations bills? When congress appropriates these enormous amounts, they are not sent as single lump sum check and deposit in XYZ bank. They are broken up into specific and smaller (though enormous) sums and transferred electronically and show up as a positive amount on some balance sheet. And then checks are drawn to sub contractors, and all the related highly inflated expense items.
So what is being referred to when they say they were looking for 2.3 trillion dollars gone lost? Perhaps they were trying to put together a second set of books to explain were years of DOD spending went.
What were these missing trillions supposed to be spent on? Are most of the pentagon's budget line items in appropriations bills? When congress appropriates these enormous amounts, they are not sent as single lump sum check and deposit in XYZ bank. They are broken up into specific and smaller (though enormous) sums and transferred electronically and show up as a positive amount on some balance sheet. And then checks are drawn to sub contractors, and all the related highly inflated expense items.
So what is being referred to when they say they were looking for 2.3 trillion dollars gone lost? Perhaps they were trying to put together a second set of books to explain were years of DOD spending went.