Last edited:
$2.3 trillion was missing on 9/10/2001
- Thread starter hamster
- Start date
Semantics. Nothing was missing.
Maybe, the Gov't didn't request receipts for the $60 billion dollar hammers they bought.
nah. it was more that the accounting systems between government agencies were not connected and thus unable to communicate with each other.
kinda like you and your neighbor down the street can speak to each other on the phone, but are sharing different internet networks.
kinda like you and your neighbor down the street can speak to each other on the phone, but are sharing different internet networks.
Pretty much anyway.
The entire federal budget in 2000 was $1.8 trillion, so $2.3 trillion going missing is absolutely not something that could be swept under the rug.
There is another variation of this story about $2.3 trillion "missing" from the pentagon in 2001.
Feb 25, 2014
Want to Cut Government Waste? Find the $8.5 Trillion the Pentagon Can’t Account For
Debunked: $8.5 Trillion Missing from the Pentagon...........
Does this mean $8.5 trillion was lost? No, the $8.5 trillion is the entire pentagon budget from 1996 to 2012. That's the entire budget for 16 years, because the baseline budget is "only" about $0.5 billion a year.
They did not lose the money. They spent the money. They even accounted for the money. They simply did not account for every single transaction in enough detail to satisfy the requirements for a full audit.
This is not to say everything is fine. It's not. There's a vast amount of waste, and quite possibly a vast amount of pork and fraud, likely totally billions over the 16 year period. But the suggestion that $8.5 trillion is missing is ludicrous - again, that's all the money the Pentagon (which is about half the budget of the DoD) has spent over those 16 years
https://www.metabunk.org/debunked-8-5-trillion-missing-from-the-pentagon.t3173/