“Congress has raised the debt ceiling, though the Pentagon audit shows a loss of $220 billion unaccounted for since an audit in 2017. Where is the money?”

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Where is the Money?

Congress has raised the debt ceiling, though the Pentagon audit shows a loss of $220 billion unaccounted for since an audit in 2017. Where is the money? Ukraine is asking for more of our taxpayer money!

Well, if you haven’t noticed before, this is not unusual. The Pentagon squandered billions in Vietnam alone…add two world wars, the Korean conflict, the Gulf War, Afghanistan, and now Ukraine…and we are talking about trillions of US dollars we will never find, even if the audit team came from Heaven. As they say, the devil is in the details [implying that the government’s budget and its allocation of funds for the Pentagon may seem a simple entry on our national budget; but what it really means is that the details in such an enormous budget are so complicated they invariable cause problems difficult to resolve throughout the approval of the budget and the subsequent chain of disbursements, monitoring, and final audit of the allocated and expended funds]. It’s an enormous process requiring armies of contracting officials, accountants, economists, et cetera.

Just remember we are the most powerful nation in the world with much to protect and defend, in addition to a block of friends and allies [in some cases ungrateful]. So, what the Generals want, the Generals get. [Even when a suspected threat to our nation and allies may not be as clear and convincing as it should to raise concern, why not ask for a bit more, just in case, right?].

Though the sums allocated to arm and sustain our armed forces and administrative personnel may be staggering, many politicians on Capitol Hill may know little or zilch about the accounting and legal systems and processes required to approve the certified flow and tiers of expenditures to procure the weapons and services to protect and defend our nation’s interests at home and abroad. To those who have served our country with pride and honor, there isn’t any other power in world history that has given and sacrificed so much in defense of liberty and freedom at home and around the world.

Yet, the pervy WEF billionaires currently in Davos [entertained by costly individual escorts] who have made their fortunes on Wall Street, are plotting [over caviar and champagne] to deny the common man the privilege of creating his own fortune, as they did in a free-market capitalist system. Instead, what they are proposing is just the same old Marxist central-planning absurdity, on a global scale. An open societies madness.

Long live the United States of America, a sovereign Constitutional Republic with liberty and justice for all. A precious land where I, and I, alone can rise from poverty to become a builder of skyscrapers. Just like our 45th President, the Honorable Donald J. Trump.

Warm regards to our dear and courageous patriot in the Tundra, Ghr. May he continue the watch, always counseled, and blessed by our Lord.

Cjack…Sentinel of the Gulf…Thursday, January 19, 2023.