Why would ANY of you want to expand the military?

[Boltlady]

The following should put THAT idea right out of your head. Wouldn't it better to make some folks accountable first?

Report Reveals $8.5 Trillion Missing From Pentagon Budget
By Global Research News
Global Research, June 05, 2015
Crooks and Liars
Region: USA


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Yahoo Money’ The Daily Ticker quoting a Reuters investigation that reveals that $8.5 trillion – that’s trillion with a “T” – in taxpayer money doled out by Congress to the Pentagon since 1996 that has never been accounted for.

You read that right. While Republican politicians rush to slash food stamps for the 47 million Americans living in poverty – the highest amount in nearly two decades – Republican U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel has the audacity to complain that $20 billion dollars in automatic sequester cuts to the massive and secretive $565.8 billion Defense Department budget are “ too steep, too deep, and too abrupt,” all while the Pentagon and the Defense Department are overseeing massive fraud, waste, and abuse.

For anyone wondering, Reuters reports that the D.O.D.’s 2012 budget totaled $565.8 billion, more than the annual defense budgets of the 10 next largest military spenders combined, including Russia and China.

In an interview, Linda Woodford, an employee at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service – the Pentagon’s main accounting agency – reveals to Reuters that she spent the last 15 years of her career simply “plugging in” false numbers every month to balance the books;

“A lot of times there were issues of numbers being inaccurate. We didn’t have the detail … for a lot of it.”

In the REAL WORLD, that would be called MASSIVE FRAUD.

Woodford’s involvement in the fraud doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface. The report also reveals that “a single DFAS office in Columbus, Ohio, made at least $1.59 trillion – yes, trillion – in errors, including $538 billion in plugs, in financial reports for the Air Force in 2009.”

Yahoo Finance lists some additional findings, including;

• • The DOD has amassed a backlog of more than $500 billion in unaudited contracts with outside vendors. How much of that money paid for actual goods and services delivered isn’t known.
  • Over the past 10 years the DOD has signed contracts for provisions of more than $3 trillion in goods and services. How much of that money is wasted in overpayments to contractors, or was never spent and never remitted to the Treasury is a mystery.
  • The Pentagon uses a standard operating procedure to enter false numbers, or “plugs,” to cover lost or missing information in their accounting in order to submit a balanced budget to the Treasury. In 2012, the Pentagon reported $9.22 billion in these reconciling amounts. That was up from $7.41 billion the year before.

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[LanceFreeman]

The U.S. defense budget accounts for 50% of the world’s military expenditure. In 2005, for example, the U.S. spent about $1.5 billion a day on war execution [Source: Frieda Berrigan, Senior Research Associate at the World Policy Institute Arms Trade Resource Center—cited in the Asia Times, August 23, 2004]; this while millions of our citizens are either unemployed, under-employed, homeless, or barely getting by. It is estimated that 50 million of our citizens, many of them elderly, have no health insurance whatsoever, and our national infrastructure is crumbling for lack of funds. This is not to mention the deliberate and systematic gutting of our industrial base by the CFR Globalists, which is designed to weaken the Republic through impoverishment of its citizens, and set it up for absorption into the planned ‘open border’ world economy referred to as the ‘New World Order’. In his essay titled “Benefits and Costs of the U.S. Government’s War Making”, Robert Higgs of the Independent Institute, and editor of the respected journal ‘The Independent Review’ stated:

“Because national security matters lie outside the immediate experience of the great bulk of the citizens, the government can get away with waste, fraud, brutality, and idiocy far more easily in foreign affairs than it can when prescribing student exams, building houses for the poor, or relieving grandma’s aches and pains. The history of U.S. foreign and defense policy in the past 60 years is an unrelieved tale of mendacity, corruption, and criminal blundering. If the government can’t fix the potholes of Washington D.C., it certainly can’t build a viable democratic state in Iraq, a nation steeped in sectarian and tribal loyalties. No one of sound mind could have supposed that it would even try, much less succeed. This adventure, like so much else that the government undertakes, is a gigantic hoax, and all too much of it verges on racketeering of the sort described by the legendary U.S. Marine, Major-General Smedley Butler.”

 

[LanceFreeman]

Recently, the German news broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, reported that: “Every day, trucks loaded with food, clothing, and other supplies cross the border from Turkey into Syria. The haulers believe most of the cargo is going to ISIS. Oil, weapons, and soldiers are also being smuggled over the border.”

My fellow citizens: when will you wake up from your drugged sleep? The U.S. government is spending 8 million dollars a day—that’s per day---of taxpayer money ‘fighting’ this terror organization. Why is the U.S. government deliberately deceiving its own people about the situation in Syria and Iraq? Why is it deliberately bankrupting the country with fake military operations, fake terror scares, and fake enemies? Note also that U.S allies Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Kuwait channel significant support to Islamic State (Israel’s devil child), and to the Al-Nusra Front head choppers.

What we are witnessing here is evil on an unbelievable scale. Compared to the monsters running our country, President Assad of Syria is a ‘good guy’, and the Iranian Mullahs are practically angels on two feet. It is clear that the American military has been usurped, derailed, and re-directed. It now serves the ambitions of the New World Order Satanists based in London and Jerusalem, and their ‘Anti-Christ’ leader waiting in the shadows for his moment in the Sun. Mind you, none of this would be happening but for the stupidity and naivete of the American people, who persist in their adolescent ways, and refuse any responsibility for the welfare of their own country.

Where has America's considerable wealth, the fruit of 200 years of labor, gone?