Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

You didn't think at all.

It was not a link to the chart, nor was it a link to a time in Obama's 2nd term.

3jack

You didn't ask for a link, you asked what republican advocated for less help for the downtrodden and needy. I know remembering what you posted becomes harder as you grow older, but you can go back and re-read your own post.

JMHO Loc: Utah

Like I said, you're priceless!!! And, damn ignorant!!!! How in the hell do you even get dressed in the morning, or do you need a lot of help???

JMHO Loc: Utah

Man, you're even more ignorant than payne1000!! Just when I didn't think there was another person that dumb, then you come along.

JMHO Loc: Utah

It explains his Social Security statement...idiot! Pay attention!

Super Dave Loc: Realville, USA

I asked for the source of your false post.

I can understand why you'd refuse. After all, what good is a lie if you admit it?

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

Aww bend over and take it like a man....puffer sluff ball. You are a pink and swishy as they come....pathetic at best.

Elwood Loc: Florida

You have just shown everyone your stupidity. What a bunch of bullshit. Crawl back into your hole you liberturd dimwit. :hunf: :XD: :XD: :thumbdown: :thumbdown:

Elwood Loc: Florida

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

Wait...I do not see anything at all....nothing even close to it...the part of the chart which shows the budget for YOU and of course, your Camel, Morris!?!

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

I cannot even begin to understand how a Muslim (payne) comes on this website and posts the same GARBAGE each and every single time....he is like a broken record....

Perhaps I can "bake him a cake"...with LOTS of Rat Poison....hahahahahah!

Elwood Loc: Florida

:lol: :lol: :thumbup: :thumbup:

payne1000

Ignorance and malice are self-refuting.

buffalo Loc: Texas

Like most threads, this one has evolved into an insult trading contest.

US exorbitant defense spending is out of control!! The taxpayers deserve better.

A recent investigation has revealed that the Pentagon has failed to account for $8.5 trillion dollars of taxpayer money Congress has allocated toward the U.S. Department of Defense since 1996.

According to the report, out from Reuters, the Pentagon has routinely cooked its books by failing to supply a clear monthly account of the money spent for Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS).

Via Reuters:

Linda Woodford spent the last 15 years of her career inserting phony numbers in the U.S. Department of Defense’s accounts.

Every month until she retired in 2011, she says, the day came when the Navy would start dumping numbers on the Cleveland, Ohio, office of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service, the Pentagon’s main accounting agency. Using the data they received, Woodford and her fellow DFAS accountants there set about preparing monthly reports to square the Navy’s books with the U.S. Treasury’s — a balancing-the-checkbook manoeuvre required of all the military services and other Pentagon agencies.

And every month, they encountered the same problem. Numbers were missing. Numbers were clearly wrong. Numbers came with no explanation of how the money had been spent or which congressional appropriation it came from. “A lot of times there were issues of numbers being inaccurate,” Woodford says. “We didn’t have the detail … for a lot of it.”

The data flooded in just two days before deadline. As the clock ticked down, Woodford says, staff were able to resolve a lot of the false entries through hurried calls and emails to Navy personnel, but many mystery numbers remained. For those, Woodford and her colleagues were told by superiors to take “unsubstantiated change actions” — in other words, enter false numbers, commonly called “plugs,” to make the Navy’s totals match the Treasury’s.

The news agency revealed that for the fiscal year 2012, it is “impossible to determine” how much of the $565 billion Congress budgeted for the Pentagon was used for its intended purpose.

The report also reveals numerous examples of unnecessary military spending as well as about a half trillion dollars in unaudited contracts with private companies, meaning there is no way to tell whether goods and services were ever actually delivered to the Defense Department.

“The Pentagon can’t manage what it can’t measure, and Congress can’t effectively perform its constitutional oversight role if it doesn’t know how the Pentagon is spending taxpayer dollars,” Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said in an email response to Reuters. “Until the Pentagon produces a viable financial audit, it won’t be able to effectively prioritize its spending, and it will continue to violate the Constitution and put our national security at risk.”

Coburn and Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) have introduced bipartisan legislation to limit funding for new Pentagon programs and prohibit the purchase of new technology if the Defense Department is not ready for audits by 2017.

That the Pentagon is bad at tracking taxpayer money is nothing new. In fact, on the day before the terror attacks on 9/11 that lead to more than a decade of ramped up military spending, then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced, “According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 Trillion dollars in transactions.”

Rumsfeld went on to say that America’s “adversary is closer to home, it’s the Pentagon bureaucracy.”

The next day, however, the Trade Centers fell and talk about wasteful military spending was forgotten.

http://personalliberty.com/pentagon-cant-account-for-8-5-trillion-taxpayer-dollars/

rebob14

OOPPPPSSSS!!!!! What's that soft squishy little thing you're standing on??? One can only wish your graphic was accurate; it would then more closely follow the Constitution.