Missing Trillions!?

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/29/eveningnews/main325985.shtml

"According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions," Rumsfeld admitted.
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I had to dig this up, because I dont believe we have ever talked about it :O.

Umm gobsmacked is all I have to say.


$2.3 trillion — that's $8,000 for every man, woman and child in America
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http://www.oilempire.us/graphics/wealth2001.jpg

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/economics/story/0,11268,1446127,00.html

The world's richest individuals have placed $11.5 trillion of assets in offshore havens, mainly as a tax avoidance measure
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http://www.whereisthemoney.org/
 
Glad to see my taxes are being put to good use.
 
holy mother of god...how do you lose track of 2.3 trillion dollars
 
article said:
In his opinion, "With good financial oversight we could find $48 billion in loose change in that building, without having to hit the taxpayers."
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...and that's just in the Pentagon's couches! :hmph:
 
Kamikazie said:
holy mother of god...how do you lose track of 2.3 trillion dollars
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Couldn't have said it better without loosing emphasis.
 
Kamikazie said:
holy mother of god...how do you lose track of 2.3 trillion dollars
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Easy! Take a sprinkle of a few corporations, a dash of questionable accounting, and finally work in a bunch of cronies! Bam! You have yourself a corrupt system.
 
satch919 said:
Easy! Take a sprinkle of a few corporations, a dash of questionable accounting, and finally work in a bunch of cronies! Bam! You have yourself a corrupt system.
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or you just put Bush as president :O

*gets hauled away by FBI*
 
Kamikazie said:
or you just put Bush as president :O
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Or that. Hooray for corruption! It's where everyone's a winner! Oh wait..........

I wouldn't doubt it if a lot of this money is going to "black projects" within our vast military system. The compartmentalization that people have been talking about makes it even harder to track the money.
 
Well I found a trillion in my wallet the other day, but I don't know where the rest could have gotten to. Maybe someone found it and reported it to the police station - Bush should go pick it up.
 
That's not to say it hasn't actually been spent where necessary, but yes it is a huge problem tracking it. I don't know if there's any foul play involved since it's been a huge problem always, tracking money spending for the Pentagon, but if there is the people doing it need to be slammed.

Either way it needs to shape up, it's bad for our military as far as being as efficient as possible and it's bad for taxpayers not knowing if the money is actually being used effectively and where it should be.
 
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