September 11th, 2001, every American who was old enough to remember that infamous day in history, knows the impact that it had on our collective national identity. Questioning any part of the official record to this day will garner swift condemnation, while the focus is on termite explosives, CGI planes and other conspiracies that dirty the water of truth. There is an issue that could very well be the reason behind the attacks and even future wars.At the time of the attacks, the Pentagon could not account for $2.3 trillion from its budget. This was stated by the Secretary of State at the time, Donald Rumsfeld, the night before flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, in the area where accounting and records were kept.
After the attacks, Americans focused on getting answers and revenge on the evildoers who caused mass death and destruction. We went to war with Al Queda and Saddam, even though the 19 hijackers were actually from Saudi Arabia. But that's a whole other story in its self.Fast forward eighteen years and again, and nothing has changed.
In a November 27th, 2018 an article published in the Nation, reported that accounting firm Ernst & Young, who were hired to get to the bottom of the budget and it's unaccounted money, could not complete their job. The firm cited:
"..that the DoD’s financial records were riddled with so many bookkeeping deficiencies, irregularities, and errors that a reliable audit was simply impossible."
The Pentagon receives 54 cents of every dollar of federal appropriations. It seems nothing has changed since 9/11.
Still, where is the money?
While the federal government and it's elected officials, plot and plan to strip our rights to self-defense, behind steel vault doors, our tax dollars are spent in what only can be guessed are new weapons, technology and surveillance, that will most likely be used on the American people, if they rightly choose to emancipate themselves from what is shaping up to be a socialist overthrow of our Representative Repuplic in the next 20 years.
But I digress. Back to the missing trillions...
"...Deputy Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan tried to put the best face on things, telling reporters, “We failed the audit, but we never expected to pass it.” Shanahan suggested that the DoD should get credit for attempting an audit, saying, “It was an audit on a $2.7 trillion organization, so the fact that we did the audit is substantial.” The truth, though, is that the DoD was dragged kicking and screaming to this audit by bipartisan frustration in Congress, and the result, had this been a major corporation, likely would have been a crashed stock."
This isn't a simple mismanagement or a poor oversight issue. It's on purpose.
The DoD has to submit an annual budget, that reflects the amount of money spent. At face value all is well. But digging deeper, The Pentagon uses "Plugs". In other words, money allocated for one department or program is falsely reported as spent and then laundered to other programs, instead of being sent back to the Department of the Treasury.
"...The plugs can be staggering in size. In fiscal year 2015, for example, Congress appropriated $122 billion for the US Army. Yet DoD financial records for the Army’s 2015 budget included a whopping $6.5 trillion (yes, trillion) in plugs. Most of these plugs “lack[ed] supporting documentation,” in the bland phrasing of the department’s internal watchdog, the Office of Inspector General. In other words, there were no ledger entries or receipts to back up how that $6.5 trillion supposedly was spent. Indeed, more than 16,000 records that might reveal either the source or the destination of some of that $6.5 trillion had been “removed,” the inspector general’s office reported."
This tactic used by the DoD, is the sole reason why the defense budget is skyrocketing over the last several years.
Instead of paying soldiers, sailors, and marines wages that reflect the salaries of private mercenaries who risk LESS than our enlisted members, we pay them less than a coffee shop worker in Washington state. In favor of blacklisted programs and to fatten the wallets of military-industrial corporations.
Trillions of dollars disappearing into programs that we the taxpayer are not aware of is blatantly unconstitutional.
Article I Section 9 of the US Constitution states:
"...No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time."
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist."
It seems the deepest regions of our government have been taken over by the military industrial complex. One must only look at past empires to see that what we do in foreign lands by government mandate, will come home to roost, on the inevitable downward spiral of societal collapse. In other words, we are funding are own enslavement.
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