Originally Posted by peef
You know where that 700 billion went? I have it in my savings account!!! Bah, that would be nice. I can understand how you lose your car keys, a book, shoot even your whole car (I did this for 2 weeks and reported it stolen), BUT how can you lose SEVEN HUNDRED BILLION DOLLARS? Good lord thats a lot of money.
I can tell you where that $700 billion is. a lot of it is spread around the good ole boys in Washington (of BOTH parties not just one or the other). ever notice how all these politicians leave office with millions richer than when they went into office? and another good part of it is spread around the world to warlords to commit genocide against their people and other assorted favors. and then lots of it is lost in grants and other things that the govt is just too lazy to keep up with.
I read an article about a year ago about a sub-contractor that was supplying nuts and bolts to the military. LITERALLY, NUTS AND BOLTS. so if the military needed one specific bolt to be sent to them, that would be a "special order" and the price would be a premium. at one point, this sub-contractor got paid $68,000 for ONE SINGLE BOLT that cost about $1.50 to manufacture. there was no kind of checks and balance system. they would place the order, the contractor would send the invoice, and the government would pay it without any questions being asked. by the time the government finally caught up with thie contractor, they had already been paid a total of $90,000,000. unbelievable.
