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by Reposted by Military Truth | Dec 28, 2018 | Defense Spending, Research
On November 15, Ernst & Young and other private firms that were hired to audit the Pentagon announced that they could not complete the job. Congress had ordered an independent audit of the Department of Defense, the government’s largest discretionary cost center—the Pentagon receives 54 cents out of every dollar in federal appropriations—after the Pentagon failed for decades to audit itself. The firms concluded, however, that the DoD’s financial records were riddled with so many bookkeeping deficiencies, irregularities, and errors that a reliable audit was simply impossible.
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by Reposted by Military Truth | Dec 28, 2018 | Defense Spending, Of Immediate Interest, Research
Vox “journalist” Matthew Yglesias tried to push this idiotic justification: “The Pentagon’s accounting errors are genuinely enormous, but they’re also just accounting errors—they don’t represent actual money that can be spent on something else.”
Sorry, but no. These are not “accounting errors.” It’s impossible to have trillions of dollars of “accounting errors.” … I’ll let Laurence Kotlikoff at Forbes answer this:
“Let’s recall that this is not simply a matter of boring accounting. Trillions in unaccounted outlays, if that’s what’s involved here, is trillions of our tax dollars being spent without our knowledge. If that’s the case, we’re talking about the biggest government financial deception in the history of the country.”
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by Reposted by Military Truth | May 10, 2018 | Defense Spending, Research
US Military Spending Still Makes China, Russia Look Small: Repost of original article by Rob Garver, May 1, 2017—Between 2007 and 2016, China increased the amount it spends on defense each year by 118 percent to $215 billion. Russia increased its military spending by 87 percent to $69.2 billion…They still spend less than half of what the Pentagon gets from U.S. taxpayers every year
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