Investigation Reveals $8.5 TRILLION Missing From Pentagon Budget
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D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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arc99 June 2nd, 2015 at 11:15 am
Over at FOX news, the first order of business is to figure out how to blame this on President Obama, even though the problems apparently started 13 years before he was sworn in.
C’mon FOX, I know you can do it!
Dwendt44 June 2nd, 2015 at 12:13 pm
No they can’t. The marching orders are dictated by Roger Ailes and they must be obeyed. You get canned at FakeNews were do you go? When the bottom of the barrel kicks you out, who’s going to hire you?
Larry Schmitt June 2nd, 2015 at 1:20 pm
Glenn Beck got his own internet show. So did Palin. Ah, the internet, where everybody knows your name.
oldfart June 2nd, 2015 at 11:39 am
The day before 9/11 there was a report of a billion dollars missing from the pentagon. That bit of news was kinda over looked the next day. The Pentagon is the largest sucking rat hole in the world. President Eisenhower was right all along.
Dwendt44 June 2nd, 2015 at 12:14 pm
IIRC, the military take over half of the budget every year.
anothertoothpick June 2nd, 2015 at 12:36 pm
Eisenhower did not clue us in until he left office.
He was responsible for the biggest military build up of his time…and then he gave that speech. He was a holy roller asshole too.
oldfart June 2nd, 2015 at 1:10 pm
Yeah he was kinda busy with WW2 and the “bomb thingy”.
IMO he was the last decent republican president this country had.
anothertoothpick June 2nd, 2015 at 1:27 pm
Nixon signed in OSHA and EPA.
IKE brought us “In god we trust” and added “under god” to the pledge.
Ike was the only president to be baptized while in office.
Ike was a looser and so was Nixon, but I will take Nixon.
oldfart June 2nd, 2015 at 2:05 pm
well, we agree one thing then, Nixon was a loser.
anothertoothpick June 2nd, 2015 at 2:28 pm
And don’t forget Ike did the highway system.
But I am not a IKE fan…but I hear he was a good golfer.
{Off topic} Do you know if Ike ever saw combat in his entire military career? I mean I know he was a great general, but did he ever see bullets fired his way? I know that Patton, Marshall, Montgomery, and even Hitler actually saw combat. Did IKE?
oldfart June 2nd, 2015 at 3:05 pm
Also off topic, he did establish the interstate system. as for his religious affiliations and signing the bills for our money and pledge, it was a much different time and he was republican after all… Only said he was decent, not perfect. My dad served in Great Brittan and was a lifelong democrat, voted for him, I still have his “I Like Ike” button. personally, i don’t think it matters if he was shot at or not.
anothertoothpick June 2nd, 2015 at 3:58 pm
I’l give you 50 bucks for that button.
William June 2nd, 2015 at 1:32 pm
I’m not sure if you are generalizing about the cold war or what? The bomb was developed under Roosevelt, and ordered dropped by Truman who wasn’t even aware of the bombs existence until 12 days after Roosevelt died. Eisenhower was pretty much kept out of the loop because he was Supreme allied commander in Europe. Macarthur was briefed on the bomb, but not until just days before it was dropped. When Truman met with JCS to discuss the decision to drop the bomb, Eisenhower was not present.
oldfart June 2nd, 2015 at 1:47 pm
Cold war, “keeping up with the jones’s” had to have been a real bitch.
Anomaly 100 June 2nd, 2015 at 11:51 am
I misplaced $20 once.
Dwendt44 June 2nd, 2015 at 12:11 pm
Just $20?
I lose that most months.
anothertoothpick June 2nd, 2015 at 12:34 pm
But you get away with it because your wife never audits your allowance.
fredoandme June 3rd, 2015 at 2:13 am
but i found it about 20 years later. true story.
Anomaly 100 June 3rd, 2015 at 6:22 am
I’m still looking.
fredoandme June 3rd, 2015 at 10:09 am
look in the leatherette case on your good old pocket transistor radio.
just folded up, quietly waiting there for you. check everything before donating to goodwill. or change your mind about that because the universe has sent you a clear signal.
Anomaly 100 June 3rd, 2015 at 10:14 am
How did you know where it was? NSAer!
fredoandme June 3rd, 2015 at 10:53 am
i was checking to see if i had left the batteries in. i hadn’t.
can’t, for the very life of me, say why the money was there, i can’t remember putting it there. i felt a nice rush of good vibrations just finding the radio in such nice shape after all that time. the money was icing.
crc3 June 2nd, 2015 at 12:07 pm
IMO this is a criminal act and heads need to roll but as usual the culprits will slide through the cracks. In the meantime the MIC just rolls along unabated as more and more WMDs are designed and manufactured. Unfortunately since much of the world hates us we are going to need those weapons to try and defend ourselves. Eventually all of this will come back to bite us in the posterior because there is not much defense for stopping hundreds if not thousands of nuclear armed missiles (fired from China or Russia) striking the homeland and other strategic locations. Hope I’m not around to see it but don’t make a mistake in thinking it’s not going to happen…
anothertoothpick June 2nd, 2015 at 12:43 pm
But??? What about freedom?
crc3 June 2nd, 2015 at 1:53 pm
Freedom to do what? We’ve had our freedoms and where has it gotten us? Wars and more wars in the name of freedom or in the name of the wealthy war mongers? We are screwed regardless…
anothertoothpick June 2nd, 2015 at 2:09 pm
Freedom to kill the “others”? Maybe.
This country was established through genocide by white religious terrorists remember.
The violence that the white people brought on the natives was absolutely vile. And when all this killing was going on, the good white folks just turned their backs to it.
And when the natives fought back, the religious folks got even more violent.
Sorry…I am off topic here…but you see what I mean when I say “Freedom”
crc3 June 3rd, 2015 at 9:00 am
Yeah…I know what you mean and it makes me ill to think about it….
eyelashviper June 2nd, 2015 at 12:15 pm
Check Cheney’s pockets.
fahvel June 2nd, 2015 at 12:19 pm
do all by however many tax payer there are and there ya go! americans get a tax refund? divide 3 T
mea_mark June 2nd, 2015 at 12:22 pm
This just means it’s time to start another investigation into what happened at Benghazi. s
madjayhawk June 3rd, 2015 at 12:11 pm
Benghazi is an interesting place where a lot of things go on. What happened when our people there were murdered needs to be investigated. When you put the CIA and weapon, human, and drug smuggling in the same sentence we had better find out what actually was happening. Those weren’t ‘terrorists’ or ‘protesters’ who killed our people. Why did the administration try (and still is trying) to cover up what actually was happening there? To protect a CIA smuggling operation? Why was an ambassador in the drug/gun smuggling center of Libya that day? No matter who is president or SofS I think these questions need to be answered. We will probably never know because they (Congress and the administration) don’t want us to know what goes on in lawless places like Libya where weapons and drugs flow like water.
OldLefty June 3rd, 2015 at 2:08 pm
. What happened when our people there were murdered needs to be investigated.
______
It’s been investigated far more than Beirut ever was, and that was much worse.
Back then, it would have been considered obscene and unseemly to dance on the graves of dead Americans just to bring us the GOP/Fox News Bengha$i BamboozlePalooza Extravaganza!!!
anothertoothpick June 2nd, 2015 at 12:31 pm
There are so many of these agencies that have never been Audited it makes you wonder If “We the People” actually means anything beside “We the suckers”.
madjayhawk June 3rd, 2015 at 12:02 pm
The really big one that needs to be audited is the Federal Reserve. They are the ones enriching Wall Street and putting the country’s economy at risk.
Pilotshark June 2nd, 2015 at 1:01 pm
dam if that is not almost haft of out debt.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i can see loosen a few bullets and maybe a bomb or two misplaced, jet fight send to wrong depot etc…
but missing 8.5T is like misplacing the whole dam Military!
Larry Schmitt June 2nd, 2015 at 1:09 pm
You mean like this? http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CAcQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fimgarcade.com%2F1%2Feasy-wheres-waldo-pictures%2F&ei=BeNtVbG8IMOjyASvj4P4DQ&bvm=bv.94455598,d.aWw&psig=AFQjCNF8vPjC0zB857HglYnW4cvnMjk2yA&ust=1433351294211313
madjayhawk June 3rd, 2015 at 12:01 pm
That took me an hour to solve.
anothertoothpick June 2nd, 2015 at 1:12 pm
Do you remember, back it the day, when the pentagon was paying $900 for toilet seats.
Larry Schmitt June 2nd, 2015 at 2:05 pm
$8.5T would buy 9,444,444,444 of those toilet seats. That’s 9.44 billion. But they would probably get a discount for that many.
anothertoothpick June 2nd, 2015 at 2:37 pm
That is too funny.
granpa.usthai June 3rd, 2015 at 12:45 am
It can
and did
happen already
rg9rts June 3rd, 2015 at 4:43 am
You laugh…several H Bombs were “lost” during an inventory
anothertoothpick June 2nd, 2015 at 1:11 pm
There are known knowns about wives These are things we know that we know about wives There are known unknowns about wives That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know about wives But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know about wives.
Donald Rumsfeld
Larry Schmitt June 2nd, 2015 at 1:58 pm
There are a whole lot of things men don’t know they don’t know about wives, trust me.
anothertoothpick June 2nd, 2015 at 2:15 pm
I’m with you Larry…but as strange as it may sound I am always looking for another Mrs. exanothertoothpick.
tracey marie June 2nd, 2015 at 1:45 pm
8 billion in cash was sent to the M.E. by bush on pallets, and wham it was never seen again. How many more pallets of billions disappeared in the last 25 years….I bet at least 3 trillion.
Bunya June 2nd, 2015 at 2:00 pm
I’m not surprised. The government feels that, once it leaves the taxpayer’s checkbook, they can do anything with that money.
anothertoothpick June 2nd, 2015 at 2:11 pm
But tracey marie…the dubya administration said that missing money was a math error….hahahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA> GASP. HAHAHAHAHAHA.
and the media bought it.
tracey marie June 2nd, 2015 at 3:32 pm
you made me snort.
granpa.usthai June 3rd, 2015 at 12:42 am
the liberal left wing media is apt to buy anything the GOPs say or do – hell look at the amount of drug monies made by using US Military Transport for Reagan’s crew – not to mention the Nuclear Arms for hostages going on at the same time.
Nare a bit of ???
K2 June 2nd, 2015 at 2:31 pm
That $566 billion is prob less than what they actually spent in 2012. DoD has provisions that allow them to spend over their budget for deployment pay, war technology, etc. which usually brings it up to the $700 billion range.
Suzanne McFly June 2nd, 2015 at 3:16 pm
That is how the war machine is fed, we go to Iran and it will happen again and again. Our leaders happily turn a blind eye because the thieves are the same people who finance their campaign. U.S. Voters are the ones who are being stolen from, and it is essentially being done by the same people we vote into office. Bernie and Warren are a couple who have not been purchased yet and I hope they are strong enough to stay that way.
Budda June 2nd, 2015 at 3:34 pm
Somebody needs to be held accountable…just saying.
madjayhawk June 3rd, 2015 at 11:59 am
It is George Bush’s, Global Warming’s, the Kohl Brothers’, and Citizen’s United’s fault. It can’t be the Secretary of Defense’s or his boss’s fault.
Budda June 3rd, 2015 at 1:43 pm
No, it’s the Pentagons fault…and Congress’ for not holding them accountable.
William June 3rd, 2015 at 1:56 pm
Who are the Kohl brothers and wtf are you talking about?
allison1050 June 2nd, 2015 at 6:29 pm
I wish just 100K would have been “lost” in my direction I’m not greedy.
zlop June 3rd, 2015 at 1:10 am
You are a thought criminal, for aspiring to such a small amount.
rg9rts June 3rd, 2015 at 4:40 am
do you share?
allison1050 June 3rd, 2015 at 5:29 am
Sure, there would be more than enough ’cause my needs are few.
rg9rts June 3rd, 2015 at 5:34 am
Mine too…but move first
allison1050 June 3rd, 2015 at 6:03 am
Gladly rg, that would be 1st on the list. You would have to do all of the shopping during winter for me, I hate snow.
rg9rts June 3rd, 2015 at 6:08 am
Shoprite has a delivery service
allison1050 June 3rd, 2015 at 6:45 am
Oh my, that sounds wonderful for those long winter months.
Larry Schmitt June 3rd, 2015 at 7:28 am
So when are you two moving in together? You seem made for each other. Does Alan get a matchmaker fee?
allison1050 June 3rd, 2015 at 11:29 am
;o) lol
robert June 2nd, 2015 at 6:58 pm
its not unaccounted for if you manage a swiss bank
zlop June 3rd, 2015 at 1:07 am
NSA knows. Why pretend otherwise.
NW10 June 2nd, 2015 at 6:59 pm
IT’S OBUMMER’S FAULT!!!!!!
/s
rhzszm June 2nd, 2015 at 8:27 pm
Because
zlop June 3rd, 2015 at 1:05 am
Waldo lived before the Rothschild, Gore and Blood,
Carbon Tax Extortion Racketeers gained control.
labman57 June 2nd, 2015 at 8:35 pm
It’s those damned overpriced wrenches and toilet seats.
Obewon June 3rd, 2015 at 12:42 am
And a huge Top secret Darpa budget! “Creating Breakthrough Technologies For National Security” http://www.darpa.mil/ http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x11lvw_thomas-dolby-she-blinded-me-with-sc_music
zlop June 3rd, 2015 at 1:00 am
Faked Moon Landings will not go away.
“”Dark Side of the Moon: Stanley Kubrick and the Fake Moon Landings”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=26EicKfNYPg#t=2089
Obewon June 3rd, 2015 at 1:14 am
You’re delusional. Go back to Alex Jones Town.
zlop June 3rd, 2015 at 1:22 am
How did you acquire such a strong belief in the honesty of government?
Obewon June 3rd, 2015 at 1:41 am
Simple. The 1969 lunar laser pyramid shaped reflector and 90%+ of convicted politicians are GOP who most voters can’t wait until they become wormfood e.g.
The GWB Abramoff Players. #1 Gail Norton | Jack Abramoff | Michael Scanlon | Adam Kidan | Ben Waldman | Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis | Grover Norquist | Ralph Reed | Italia Federici | Rev. Louis P. Sheldon | David H. Safavian | J. Steven Griles | Rep. Robert Ney (R-Ohio) | Neil G. Volz | Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) | Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) | Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) | Tony C. Rudy, et al. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/custom/2005/12/23/CU2005122300939.html
zlop June 3rd, 2015 at 2:11 am
“The 1969 Apollo 11 lunar based laser ranging retroreflector array”
Was it left there by a robot, similar to the Russian Lunokhod ?
Radio telescope could have sufficient resolution to resolve, what was left behind.
“NASA Insider: The moon is real but we lied about everything else”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdqB7yhboyM
William June 3rd, 2015 at 1:50 pm
Isn’t it a little early to be that stoned?
zlop June 3rd, 2015 at 2:10 pm
Moon exploration is avoided. Google rover was not allowed, because
it might go to the fake Moon landing site? Astronaut told the truth?
“According to the NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong the aliens have a base on
the Moon and told us in no uncertain terms to get off and stay off the Moon”
William June 3rd, 2015 at 2:39 pm
“According to the NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong the aliens have a base on
the Moon and told us in no uncertain terms to get off and stay off the Moon”
OK, I think this conversation is over.
Good luck at the halfway house. I hope you get better. Say hello to Alex Jones for me.
zlop June 3rd, 2015 at 2:46 pm
“Say hello to Alex Jones for me.”
Alex Jones believes in the Moon Landings.
And the “President of real Flat Earth Society believes in the global warming”
ecotoper June 3rd, 2015 at 3:26 pm
ziop … it appears that you have never met a conspiracy theory which you did not like … I really do believe we need a few crackpots around like yourself to map the extreme edges of public thought … thank you for acting as one of those extremes … your lunacy is a service to societal sanity …
zlop June 3rd, 2015 at 4:52 pm
Labeling to stop questioning and prevent understanding?
“it appears that you have never met a conspiracy theory which you did not like”
Like or not, many jigsaw puzzle pieces are conspiracies;
CO2 warming and ‘By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War’
Obewon June 3rd, 2015 at 8:12 pm
“conspiracies; CO2 warming”-Lol! 97% of climate scientists agree +1.4 F above the global temp average: ‘Modern global warming is 80% caused by human burning fossil fuels, 20% caused by human deforestation’-NASA, NOAA, UK MET, et al http://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/ 3 peer-reviewed fact graphs provide triple redundant proof 🙂
zlop June 3rd, 2015 at 9:10 pm
“Lol! 97% of climate scientists agree +1.4 F above the global temp average:”
Vatican Pope is controlled by the Global Warming Rothschild Profiteers. Christians agree with the Pope. Similar with Universities, which are funded, by those who profit from CO2 taxes. “The Rothschilds & the Vatican” https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=FNg6xwwc48Y#t=92
‘”Modern global warming is 80% caused by human burning fossil fuels, 20% caused by human deforestation’-NASA, NOAA, UK MET, et al”?
Despite attempted warming by chem-trails, to support CO2 taxes,
20 years of No Global Warming. http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperDownload.aspx?DOI=10.4236/ojs.2014.47050
“3 peer-reviewed fact graphs provide triple redundant proof :)”?
Clouds are lower by 40 meters, indicating Troposphere heat loss.
Search — “Earth’s clouds are getting lower – NASA”
Troposphere cooling supports the lower cloud statement.
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/rss/from:1998/plot/rss/from:1998/trend/plot/esrl-co2/from:1998/normalise/offset:0.7/plot/esrl-co2/from:1998/normalise/offset:0.7/trend/plot/rss/from:2001/trend
Then, we have Ocean Cooling;
“The global integral of vertical heat flux shows an upward heat transport in the deep ocean, suggesting a cooling trend in the deep ocean.” http://www.mit.edu/~xliang/resources/liang2015a.pdf
https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/loehle_ocean_heat_content.png http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/SSMI-clw-1987-2013-convert-to-CERES-Net1.jpg http://ber.parawag.net/images/Levitus_2009_updated.jpg
Obewon June 3rd, 2015 at 8:06 pm
Good! I’m glad you concur. The wingnut conspiracy humor is priceless.
rg9rts June 3rd, 2015 at 4:39 am
When did you get such a strong belief in wingnuts? Have I got a bridge for you
Larry Schmitt June 3rd, 2015 at 7:30 am
It’s not a bridge to the moon, is it? Cuz that would be a bitch for maintenance.
rg9rts June 3rd, 2015 at 7:34 am
I was thinking the one in Alaska….that reminds me of a joke from the car guys…another time ,,,
Bunya June 3rd, 2015 at 2:57 pm
Yes, but think of how little maintenance that bridge in Alaska requires. The people should be indebted to Sarah Palin for “constructing” such a care-free structure.
rg9rts June 3rd, 2015 at 3:03 pm
That was Ted Stevens….always brought home the pork
Bunya June 3rd, 2015 at 3:52 pm
Oops. Mea culpa.
rg9rts June 3rd, 2015 at 4:32 pm
She probably went along with it
Larry Schmitt June 3rd, 2015 at 7:32 am
You probably believe the Newtown shootings didn’t happen too.
zlop June 3rd, 2015 at 12:51 pm
Why does one believe?
madjayhawk June 3rd, 2015 at 11:56 am
Sing this in your best C&W accent:
“If my nose was running government money, I would buy you the moon, healthcare, foodstamps, cell phones, weatherization, unemployment, social security, mortgage assistance, renter’s assistance, home loans, disaster assistance, welfare, school lunches and breakfast, student loans, farm loans, crop assistance, dislocated and laid off worker assistance, roads and bridges, museums and national parks, NASA, military, scientific research grants, tax credits, subsidies of all kinds, veterans assistance, medicare, disability payments, medicaid, and government jobs. If my nose was running government money I would blow it all on you.” ……………………………… But it snot (just kidding, it still is).
Apply here today for your share of the American Dream – FREE GOVERNMENT MONEY!!! http://www.benefits.gov You might have to fill in a form or two to get it though. Congress is probably working on eliminating that inconvenience and you will soon be able to just send in a postcard with the “I am a Victim of ______________ Send me $___________________ filled out. “
allison1050 June 3rd, 2015 at 2:12 pm
again!
Talkin_Truth June 3rd, 2015 at 12:56 am
And, yet, I have to buy pencils and notebook paper for my students out of my own pocket.
And Republicans accuse us liberals of “throwing money” at education.
zlop June 3rd, 2015 at 1:03 am
Common Core Indoctrination needs to be assigned higher priority.
Larry Schmitt June 3rd, 2015 at 8:09 am
I have three sisters who are or have been teachers, and they have had to do the same thing. It’s disgraceful that our school budgets don’t cover basic materials.
rg9rts June 3rd, 2015 at 4:36 am
That sounds a little low… of course there will be no inquiry while Benghazi is on the front burner
zlop June 3rd, 2015 at 6:25 am
Those, inside the UFO base, on the other side of the Moon, know.
“Dark Journalist: Catherine Austin Fitts – The UFO Economy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VM-NEcWhj4c#t=75
illinoisboy1977 June 3rd, 2015 at 11:07 am
I get upset if my books show a discrepancy of even a nickel. I’ll spend 12 or more hours, tracking that nickel down. I expect and DEMAND no less from my government.
madjayhawk June 3rd, 2015 at 1:56 pm
It is not their money so why should they worry. If we really knew how much money our government wastes every day we would be lining people up to fire them or jail them.
But that will never happen. They all are union employees. Ever try to fire someone in a union? I worked in state government and I can tell you that most of the people in my unit came in at 9 and left at 3:30 and took a 1.5 hour lunch. Their morning breaks interfered with their lunch ‘hour’. They maxed out their sick leave in January and then ‘worked’ at home for the rest of the year. These were the people first in line for promotion. There are hardworking, honest government employees but none of worked where I did.
When I worked in industry if you were late a couple of times you were in danger of being fired. And God help you if took more than an hour for lunch. Everyone just followed the rules so there were no problems. No one ever got fired though. We were paid to work and we did.
OldLefty June 3rd, 2015 at 2:05 pm
It has always been thus.
Meanwhile, what we pay in corporate welfare, not to mention the huge golden parachutes for people in corporate unions v labor unions.
madjayhawk June 3rd, 2015 at 11:28 am
This is the best run administration in history.
Budda June 3rd, 2015 at 1:43 pm
A lot better than the last one.
Daniel Lovejoy June 3rd, 2015 at 1:29 pm
The last time someone brought this up, we started a war in Iraq and Afghanistan to take focus off the Pentagon. Now that you’re bringing it up again, we will probably be heading to North Korea.