"It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
"A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
MG Smedley Butler
According to a recent report, $21 trillion of our money is missing ... and that is IN ADDITION TO the $20 trillion deficit which has been run up in our name:
https://usawatchdog.com/21-trillion-missing-u-s-government-a-criminal-enterprise-catherine-austin-fitts/
Here is a link to the numbers, by agency and by year:
https://solari.com/blog/dod-and-hud-missing-money-supporting-documentation/
Is "our" government a criminal enterprise? If these claims are correct, it sure looks that way.
What really bothers me about this is that our military allegedly is the most respected institution in the land, and yet they appear to be a bunch of thieves. Whether that is the case or whether they are incredibly sloppy in their accounting, I don't think we owe them that level of respect ever again. At least not for the generals and admirals who have been overseeing this massive swindle.
Here is another report on this issue:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.mintpressnews.com/cooking-books-dod-hud-defrauded-taxpayers-of-21-trillion-from-1998-to-2015/232905/