Economic security

The Pentagon Can't Account for $21 Trillion (That's Not a Typo)

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  Charlotte Ruse • 2 days ago

  
  
  The Pentagon Can't Account for $21 Trillion AND COUNTING.......... Actually $29 Trillion is missing from the Pentagon since last December of 2017--and it could be much more.
  
  "On September 10, 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference to disclose that over $2,000,000,000,000 in Pentagon funds could not be accounted for. Rumsfeld stated: “According to some estimates we cannot track $2.3 trillion in transactions.” The Inspector General of the Pentagon can't account for 25 percent of what it spends.
  
  Seventy percent of US working-class tax dollars are allocated to arms manufacturers, private contractors, mercenary forces and ALL war profiteers. These ghouls have no incentive to end the ENDLESS WARS. These ghouls have become billionaires off the back of the working-class. Trillions of tax dollars are absconded by the military industrial complex--that's the reason for austerity. It is the reason that social safety nets are defunded, the infrastructure is decayed, 30 million do not have healthcare, teachers sell their blood to pay for food, public school buildings are falling apart, 60,000 hopeless Americans die from Opioids, and veterans are homeless and can't get decent healthcare.
  
  The Democratic and Republican Party always unanimously vote to increase the military budget and approve all needless military interventions. "Trillions of dollars flow to military and homeland security companies. When the administration starts a war like Libya, it is a windfall for companies who are given generous contracts to produce everything from replacement missiles to ready-to-eat meals.
  In the Libyan war alone, the administration spent roughly $550 million. That figure includes about $340 million for munitions - mostly cruise missiles that must be replaced. Not only did Democratic members of Congress offer post-hoc support for the Libyan attack, but they also proposed a permanent authorization for presidents to attack targets deemed connected to terrorism."