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The Pentagon Can't Account for $21T

53 点作者 da02大约 7 年前

6 条评论

brd529大约 7 年前
The tone and vulgar word choices of the article undermine its credibility. I’m glad they did because it inspired me to google the issue. Second result debunks it:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metabunk.org&#x2F;debunked-missing-21-trillion-6-5-trillion-2-3-trillion-journal-vouchers.t9718&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metabunk.org&#x2F;debunked-missing-21-trillion-6-5-tr...</a><p>Per the DOD comptroller, the unsupported journal adjustments are a technical accounting term<p>&gt; when the military has to make quarterly or year-end financial statements, some entries, like the value of certain assets (like aircraft carriers) or liabilities (like pensions), have to be transferred either manually or by an automated but uncertified system. Because of this it&#x27;s marked as &quot;unsupported&quot; because it lacks a rigorous audit trail. But it&#x27;s not missing. It&#x27;s just a long list of entries, like the value of the Navy&#x27;s ships, that don&#x27;t meet proper accounting standards
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archgoon大约 7 年前
The pentagon&#x27;s budget is only[1][2] about 600 billion dollars a year, over the 17 year period. This is saying they can&#x27;t account for over 35 years of budget.<p>I don&#x27;t understand how this number can possibly be correct in the sense that it&#x27;s being presented. The article doesn&#x27;t really explain it, can someone explain how the numbers add up? Is the Pentagon running a hedge fun in the background along with it&#x27;s funding from congress?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Military_budget_of_the_United_States" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Military_budget_of_the_United_...</a><p>[2] I don&#x27;t typically use the word &#x27;only&#x27; to describe the US military budget.
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fharper1961大约 7 年前
For a some explanations of what happened: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metabunk.org&#x2F;explained-6-5-trillion-unsupported-and-undocumented-in-2015-financial-statement.t7845&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metabunk.org&#x2F;explained-6-5-trillion-unsupported-...</a>
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manav大约 7 年前
Stargate program.
some_account大约 7 年前
Why are people surprised by this? It seems so naive to think they would be upfront with their massive secret, dark projects.
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timavr大约 7 年前
I hope they are building space ships to protect against incoming alien invasion which they discovered via time machine they built 10 years ago.