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- quakerorts, on 10/12/2007, -10/+127This is the military-industrial-congressional complex, that Ike warned us about, in action. War pigs at the trough.
- chopenik, on 10/12/2007, -6/+107That was a great farewell address he (Eisenhower) gave.
On the side note pertaining to the news article. This is one of the saddest chapter in this country's history. Please take note that this hasn't been talked about on any of the major corporate media outlets even though this would seem like the story of the centruy! What is up with that. Let's face it. The American society as we know it is rotting away from the inside much like the Roman Empire once did. - TheAstronomer, on 10/12/2007, -3/+84Did anyone check the date on this?
The War On Waste
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 29, 2002
Probably more like 5 trillion now - aerogant, on 10/12/2007, -10/+72Hey blowing up two towers isn't cheap.
- weirdness, on 10/12/2007, -4/+50"The American society as we know it is rotting away from the inside much like the Roman Empire once did."
Historians may say that it was inevitable. Fortunately, there will be a helluva a lot of evidence as to what what went wrong. Thank technology, if that's the case. Or possibly, smart people will figure it all out much sooner and the "empire" is just experiencing a little turbulence. - ZakColeman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+41How can you lose 2.3 trillion, I mean if I do something wrong on taxes the gov. is right on my ass grabing the extra pennys' - WTF
- littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -4/+42Two words: Black Operations
- joltjake, on 10/12/2007, -1/+29hmm, that's weird, because I found 2.289 trillion dollars.
- MarkCiccone, on 10/12/2007, -5/+33I remember seeing this in a video, I was so pissed off, what a day to announce this, no one would obviously remember this the next day... how eerily convenient!
- Aeaus, on 10/12/2007, -6/+33Don't be so simple, it's all really terrorist propaganda, anything against the war is blatently anti-american and supportive of the terrorists. Everybody get writing checks to Halliburton.
- littlebylittle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26"oops I meant responding to the blowing up of two towers isn't cheap :)"
Neither is worldwide distribution, I mean eradication, of all the pesky Opium crops in Afghanistan. - Osjpr, on 10/12/2007, -8/+32Where are you fiscal conservatives? Sold all your principles but don't care because you're too spineless to say something?
- skyfire1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Would your name happen to be Dick Cheney?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27Now,now,gentleman- don't you know that our leaders know better than we do what is good for us. You see, the reason this story has not been reported in the mainstream media is because it is SPAM. That's right,SPAM, the word used on DIGG.com to refer to a story such as this. I think I am beginning to understand the meaning of SPAM. I think it is a synonym for TRUTH.
- VhaidraU, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25A democratic republic has never laster more than 250 years. The people keep accepting more government "protestion" and control until it is a dictatorship and then eventually the people revolt again. Sadly no political system is free from the grasps of corruption, but a republic tends to last longer that communism or socialism.
- kavery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Did they check under the couch?
- aerogant, on 10/12/2007, -6/+23oops I meant responding to the blowing up of two towers isn't cheap :)
- mag72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Well, considering that this was published in 2002, the total is probabaly about twice that much now...
- sergeantmudd, on 10/12/2007, -7/+20Look, I'm sure the Pentagon loses billions of dollars. But this 2.3 trillion figure comes from Donald Rumsfeld. And Rumsfeld had an agenda from day one and a predilection towards hyperbole. He wanted to paint the Pentagon as inefficient, money wasting, bureaucratic, and in desperate need of the reforms he proposed.
I don't doubt the Pentagon is all those things but not to the tune of 2.3 trillion dollars. Rumsfeld was trying to make a case for his deep and drastic reforms.
Also, he never gave that figure a time frame. 2.3 trillion dollars over how many years? Only past years, or does this include future predictions? And he said "we cannot track." That doesn't mean the money is missing. It means accounting practices to follow that much money are not adequate. - raindogmx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13And Lou Dobbs was worried last night because americans spend 61 billion in drugs each year. He said something about how many kids could be educated with that money.
- Salgat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I could use that money for college.
- SuckMyDigg, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Don't ever call anyone a ***** again.
- CornStarch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Sam Fisher needs his gear and those sticky shockers ain't cheap.
- MrEguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11@mdhauke
Uh, there was no digg.com in 2002 -- so how could the contributor be "recycling the same articles"??
Its subject is relevant to today's events, and it needs to be read whether it was written in 2002 or yesterday. - skulljar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9I worked in the Comptroller aboard a large military installation. I balanced the books. I kept track of all incoming dollars. They ran into the hundreds of millions and even the billions- and came from multiple sources. I tracked what it was supposed to be used for, what it WAS used for, and every single movement in around and between with intricate detail. There was no "losing track of money." That was not an option nor a possibility with the layers and layers of accountability in place. Money like that does not get "lost," it gets laundered.
- superal1394, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10@littlebylittle: And some of the money into pockets that are never to be found
- SuckMyDigg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Funny I mentioned this to some family members during a heated discussion about the course our nation has been taking and the direction it appears we're headed... and not a single one of them had ever heard about this. People who only go by the mainstream media are missing so much information it makes it nearly impossible to discuss certain matters without the conversation devolving into a character bashing party.
Yeah I must be a complete conspiracy nut because you've never heard about the missing pentagon money. This doesn't even mention the fact that a very large amount of gold worth millions of dollars that was held below building 7 also went 'missing' on the same exact day. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13A tip for the Pentagon: Look inside your asses
- knodi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7If they are going to just lose it like they, why do they get mad when I lose the tax return form that I filled and then lost.
- xister, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Oh don't turn it into a left/right thing. Dem? Republican? Both sides are full of dirty bastards. But you're right, the money just can't be accounted for. It's still in our economy, or more to the point in some rich bastard's pocket and that $$$ estimate is probably over a long period of time.
- mikev, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13In Soviet Russia, 2.3 trillion dollars loses you!
- jboeke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Well... Digg wasn't born yet back then.
I just wanted to give everyone another chance to get pissed that we have to pay taxes and THIS is how our government handles our money. - geoboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Pay no attention to mike. He is a freeper. Know how you can tell? Look at all those numbers in his name.
- artificial001, on 10/12/2007, -2/+92.3 trillion = $7666.66 per person.
talk about a ***** - jboeke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Sorry. I have lost have good sense of news have article.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8And let me make you a prediction - This problem wont go away ever as long as americans can only vote "same old" democrats or republicans.
- Spiritcatcher, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Three words: Donald ***** Rumsfeld
- thekarmastrike, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8This should be the scandal of the decade. 2.3tril? Thats two Iraq wars - GONE.
I'm so sick of these scum who run our country. - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Its being funneled into the Stargate Program.
Dont worry, the money is going towards defending the Earth... - Toast1185, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"Is that necessarily a bad thing? Perhaps something better will grow out of the fertile ruins. Death and rebirth, my friends."
It is for me since I will probably be part of the death generation in this country. Bloated government budgets and the like... If you are so excited about it, you enjoy all of the demise of America, call me when it rises from the ashes. - AngryBacon, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13Huh. I smell 1984.
Doublespeak?
Newspeak?
Blackwhite?
Bush doubleplusgood duckspeak. - jboeke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah. That was a dick move. I was feeling saucy.
For serious: Has anyone heard about this since? I'd really, truly, honestly like to know if anybody has looked into this or if it was just forgotten. - jboeke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Yeah, I couldn't properly track my sunglasses earlier today. That's why I always buy cheap ones. I keep improperly tracking those things all the time.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5RUMSFELD AND BUSH ARE *****
- gameforge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Real estate division of what? A government organization? They know what's going in - you're telling me they don't know what's going out? From the article: "...Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war. Not on foreign terrorists, 'the adversary's closer to home. It's the Pentagon bureaucracy,' he said. He said money wasted by the military poses a serious threat. 'In fact, it could be said it's a matter of life and death,' he said."
It doesn't sound to me like he's just having some problems getting his pie charts together. - wassim2k, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7They're also missing 2.3 trillion bytes of personnel data.
- goink, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6oh Wow, you caught my typo. That totally negates what I said.
- Run4ny, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Who benefits?
9/11 was an inside job. - broncophan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4911 was an inside job, pulled off by somebody who had access to a couple trillion dollars.
- Sep11insidejob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah from able danger
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