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Anybody seen where my 2.3 trillion went?
This would be funny if it wasn't so tragically 'coincidental'.
Secondly, Sept 10, 2001? Seriously? Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Sadly, that's the nature of bureaucracies. If I remember correctly, the EU parliament has never had an audit signed off due to material uncertainties in the figures presented. I guess when it's other people's money you're spending you aren't so bothered about keeping track of it.
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Bureaucracy is inefficient in every country or international organisation, Japan loses pension records for almost half its population, here in Belgium we have a Ministry of Defence that's basically bankrupt, and our Ministry of Finances "misplaced" about 1 billion euros worth of tax money. Bureaucrats tend to become sloppy when they aren't dealing with their on money, when things get too abstract, they don't realize the impact that their mistakes can have. The worst part is that despite all the reports and warnings, bureaucrats never have to pay a price for their mistakes, even if they cover it up. External audits were created for a good reason, but even their findings aren't deemed significant enough to change the system. Sadly enough, just like so many other screw ups, this will cause a tiny scandal for about a week or so, and no seems to care anymore after that.
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I was speaking idiomatically. |
Well it should seem obvious what I'm trying to suggest. Rumsfeld announces they lost 2.3 trillion dollars, and lucky for him no one even remembers since 9/11 occurred the next day. Awful convenient yeah? Lets not forget the the whole current war on terror cost approx 3 trillion so far, so we aren't talking a drop in the bucket in the way of money here. Thats more than an entire years budget for the entire government pre-2003. Also, according to wikipedia... that is more money than the income tax brought in for 2007.
Don'tcha think this might have been big news had it not been overshadowed the next day? An entire year's budget -zip- vanished? Of course this obviously can't be for only one year, but still, that is an enormous sum of money. Its absurd! What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?
Last edited by Nehmi; Jun 4, 2008 at 12:52 PM.
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Someone remembered it four months later, when this article came out.
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Nice straw man you got there Styphon.
CBS did one story on this and never mentioned it again. I can't find any other major news organizations that carried this story AT ALL. In fact, doing a search on this story only comes up with articles later based on this one story. Thats it, one story. For 2.3 trillon dollars. Did I mention the President had his state of the union address that night this story ran? No wait, I'm sure there were more people paying attention to this story than that. Silly me. Jam it back in, in the dark. |
Maybe, if you could come up with some evidence to support the idea that Rumsfeld announced that the Department of Defense had lost 2.3 trillion dollars up to 2001 on September 10, knowing that the news would be overshadowed the next day (because he was in on it, of course), and that CBS followed up four months later knowing that the State of the Union address would overshadow it then (despite the fact that, if the media and the government were as tight as people like you say, they could have simply not run this story at all and gotten away with it), I'd let this continue. As it is, it sounds like just a rant about how the government did 9/11 to cover up how it can't handle money now. We have a "don't rant" rule in Political. I will therefore close this before it becomes even more of a farce. If someone wants to remake the thread and concentrate on the gross fiscal irresponsibility in the story, feel free. Nehmi, you have a journal. Continue to use it for your Alcoa-advertising needs. Most amazing jew boots |