Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco" channel.

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  9.  @Qrayon  It's pretty basic math. You can't have trillions missing if you didn't get extra trillions cumulatively even decades prior to that. You would have to manufacture trillions out of thin air, which was never allocated to DoD. Each fiscal year is a finite budget to fund DoD. Look at the DoD budget timeline Y2Y. There simply isn't anywhere to lose even $1 trillion. DoD budget was pretty flat in the 1960s-1970s, at $49-$84 Billion/yr. It broke through $112B/yr in 1978. It broke through $200B/yr in the '80s ($221B in 1984), and $300B in the '90s, never exceeding $400B/yr until after 9/11/2001. So now start adding. There's no mathematical way to come up with Rumsfeld's numbers unless you make $230B disappear every year for 10 years, which is preposterous when the budget was only $143-$320B/yr from 1980-2000. Since every funded program and O&M costs were what they were, there simply was no room for that to happen. You're talking about a continual gargantuan accounting fraud, while simultaneously having contractors deliver aircraft carriers, submarines, heavy cargo lift aircraft, B-1Bs, stealth bombers, satellites, thousands of fighters, tanks, APCs, IFVs, base housing all over the world, depots, nukes, missiles, bombs, ammunition, uniforms, boots, and food for free. Then you would have to account for Healthcare costs, schools, military institutes, test facilities, and the O&M budget to operate and maintain all of the above, which is typically 3x the cost of acquisitions over the life of a program. Those $49-$320B/yr budgets were spent on acquisitions, RDT&E, O&M, personnel, and services. Each fiscal year has detailed accounting for all the weapons systems, test programs, operations & maintenance, and contracted services. It's the most accountable portion of the entire Federal budget, unlike Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, HUD, DOEd, DOJ, EPA, IRS, FEMA, FDA, DHS, etc.
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