So, there's NINE BILLION DOLLARS missing in Iraq

[underpants]

"A billion here a billion there pretty soon you are talking about serious money"

The 2005 Discretionary Budget outlays

2005
Social Security $9.1 Billion (=)
Small Business Administration $678 million
Commerce $5.7 Billion (> )
EPA $7.8 Billion (> )
Interior $10.08 Billion (< )
Treasury $10.08 Billion (< )
Corp of Engineers $4.0 Billion (2X + )
Labor $11.9 billion (< )
State and International Assistance $10.3 billion (< )
Transportation $57.4 billion
Veteran's Affairs $29.7 billion; $32.1 billion (with collections)
Agriculture $19.1 billion
NASA $16.2 Billion
Justice $18.7 Billion (1/2)
Education $57.3 billion
Energy $24.3 billion (gross)
HHS $66.8 billion
HUD $31.3 billion
Homeland Security $33.8 billion
Defense $401.7 billion


LBN thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1197623&mesg_id=1197623

2005 Budget
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2005/budget.html

[Parche]

1. missing $$

And there is over $300 billion missing from our treasury..........
oh wait...it went to Iraq to promote freedom.......SNARF

[lazarus]

2. What's wrong with this picture?

I see these two items:

Social Security $9.1 Billion
Defense $401.7 billion

We want to trim a few billion dollars. And we need to take them from SS? :shrug:

[underpants]

6. Why do you hate 'Murka? and those who have so bravely served?

Sorry I couldn't resist.

BTW- that is 2.24% of the DoD budget

[DoYouEverWonder]

3. There's tons of gold missing too

They were taking it out of Iraq by the truck full for awhile.

[BlueEyedSon]

4. LOOK IN BREMMER'S SUITCASE!

[underpants]

9. Have you ever seen a faster exit?

Hell, the Ambassador to Vietnam could get out THAT fast.

BeepBeepShaBANG! ------>

[cthrumatrix]

12. where is the MEDIA demanding an investigation of our tax $$$$$$'s ????

[underpants]

18. This was the exchange this morning with Bremer on the Today Show

Bremer was on talking about how great a job he did and how great we are doing training Iraqis. Katie said (close quote)~"Oh and I can't let you go without asking about another little matter there seems to be $9 Billion missing from the Iraqi Treasury how do you respond to that?"
Bremer:"Well we were in the middle of a WAR we didn't have time to set Western accounting measures.....the commanders on the ground told me that these funds needed to be spent to rebuild, you realize it was an economy much like our own Great Depression, so I instructed be released as requested and I did establish an inspector general in every ministry (didn't find anything)..."

Katie:"Okay thank you"

[cthrumatrix]

20. you are kidding me ....aren't you?

[underpants]

21. Watch for yourself (2nd of 4 videos)

About 4:20into the 5:35 clip
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3032633/?ta=y

Check out his answer on IRai troop numbers-"I don't know where Time got that number (14,000)The number the government is using is 120,000 to 130,000"

[Spinzonner]

5. Losing/Stealing/Wasting that kind of money

is Chump Change for the Bushies

[WoodrowFan]

7. did they look in all their jacket pockets?? (NT)

[tuvor]

8. And what's happened to the oil revenue?

Rough math:

$50/barrell x 2,000,000 barrels/day x 660 days of war = $66 billion

[underpants]

10. I understood it would pay for the war

of course that was before Bremer established that Iraqi oil can be completely owned by non-Iraqis.

[jjtss]

11. I don't believe

that it is missing at all....The Bush Crime Family knows exactly where every penny is hidden:D

[Malikshah]

13. Paging Dr. Evil...

*puts pinky to mouth suggestively*

[Jose Diablo]

14. Someplace people seldom look

Check under the cushions in the sofa, ya know sometimes change falls down there.

[Massacure]

15. Whats scary is that the government is such a big blackhole

We will probably never find that 9 billion dollars.

[jazzjunkysue]

16. Wasn't me! :)

[Octafish]

17. Is THAT all? That's couch change at the Pentagon.

Have the GS-1 house maintainance specialist rifle behind the cushions in the D-ring lounge. Shoot, a fellow could find that much inside a wallet left behind in the latrine there. Who knows what kind of money Rummy's run off with, let alone the rest of the BFEE.

[SmokingJacket]

19. With all this money missing....

maybe someone should be watching for money to mysteriously TURN UP somewhere.

Because this kind of money is hard to fritter away playing video games at the arcade.

Someone's going to be putting in a new pool. Someone's going to be dressing awfully nice.

[cthrumatrix]

22. the dems in the Senate certainly don't seemed concerned

funny how nobody cares....