Abra Cadabra, It's Gone.

       Everybody knows that the Pentagon is Master of Waste what with hundred dollar screwdrivers and $500 toilet seats, but I just read a disturbing report on the 8.5 trillion dollars the Pentagon can't account for. $8,500,000,000,000 and the military can't figure out where it went or what it was spent on? Do they know what accountants do for a living?
       Since 1996 the Department of Defense has been required by law to be always audit ready. It appears they have missed that goal. If it were a foot race, the DOD would still be in the starting blocks when the last of the runners of the marathon crossed the finish line. The military sent pallets full of hundred dollar bills to Iraq and Afghanistan and nobody knows where it went. Add to that $8.5 trillion the new fighter plane F-35 at a cost (so far) of $1.5 trillion and it starts to add up to  a big deal
       Think about this; there are 123 million households in America. If we had to pay up for this missing money, it would amount to $70,000 per family. The only reason you didn't get that bill is because they borrowed the money. That's right, half the U.S.A.'s debt is the money given to the Pentagon that they can't account for. Now I'm sure that some of that money was wisely spent, just as I'm sure that much of it wasn't.
       So the next time you hear somebody claim we need more money for our military so it can protect us from all comers, just remember, we've got the largest military in the world, by far. We already spend more on our military then the next five largest militaries in the world, combined. We don't need to increase the DOD budget, we need the DOD to find some of the money we already gave them that they lost.