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| U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, auditor finds | |
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| Che On The Rocks | Aug 20 2016, 07:56 AM Post #1 |
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| Deleted User | Aug 20 2016, 08:09 AM Post #2 |
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Seems odd, since the overall US spending is less that $4T annually. Perhaps the author or auditor is mistaken, or has misplaced a comma? |
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| Robertr2000 | Aug 20 2016, 10:56 AM Post #3 |
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Why oh why is ANYONE surprised about this? Every branch of Government, all the Major Corporations, All the Too-Big-Too-Fail Banks does this today. Oh but everything is fine.....
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| Robert Stout | Aug 20 2016, 03:55 PM Post #4 |
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This is called the "black budget" which pays for imaginative secret weapons and real Generals and defense contractors............
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| George Aligator | Aug 20 2016, 04:47 PM Post #5 |
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From the OPAt first glance adjustments totaling trillions may seem impossible. The amounts dwarf the Defense Department’s entire budget. Making changes to one account also require making changes to multiple levels of sub-accounts, however. That created a domino effect where, essentially, falsifications kept falling down the line. In many instances this daisy-chain was repeated multiple times for the same accounting item. This points to the fact that this is a story about accounting discrepancies. It doesn't mean all this is real money that some sargeant has under his mattress. We spend too much on the Pentagon, but it isn't quite as this article insinuates. Edited by George Aligator, Aug 20 2016, 04:49 PM.
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