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Don't worry. By the time our government is done letting the Fed print and spend money, 20 billion won't be enough to worry about. Bluelotus: That's exactly how they move cash around, on pallets. Fork lifts run all day long at the Treasury. They're probably running three shifts now. :(
With the Bushies in control, that's just a drop in the bucket. Those clowns couldn't have wasted money better if they had plans to destroy the economy... wait a minute. Maybe all that bungling was really intentional. Nobody could be as stupid as these people could they?
Yes, and it's probably in the same place the billions that disappeared from the Pentagon on 9/10/01 went. I care, but then I'm not a politician, terrorist or mercenary.
Yes it did, but I really can't understand why no one cares about it. It might have been Iraqi money that we were holding onto for them, from Oil for Food program or something but I'm not sure that really makes it any better. ...There isn't a brazen, two-bit, purse-snatching money caper you can think of that didn't happen at least 10,000 times with your tax dollars in Iraq. At the very outset of the occupation, when L. Paul Bremer was installed as head of the CPA, one of his first brilliant ideas for managing the country was to have $12 billion in cash flown into Baghdad on huge wooden pallets and stored in palaces and government buildings. To pay contractors, he'd have agents go to the various stashes — a pile of $200 million in one of Saddam's former palaces was watched by a single soldier, who left the key to the vault in a backpack on his desk when he went out to lunch — withdraw the money, then crisscross the country to pay the bills. When desperate auditors later tried to trace the paths of the money, one agent could account for only $6,306,836 of some $23 million he'd withdrawn. Bremer's office acknowledged not having any supporting documentation for $25 million given to a different agent. A ministry that claimed to have paid 8,206 guards was able to document payouts to only 602. An agent who was told by auditors that he still owed $1,878,870 magically produced exactly that amount, which, as the auditors dryly noted, suggests that the agent had a reserve of cash. In short, some $8.8 billion of the $12 billion proved impossible to find. Who in their right mind would send 360 tons of cash into a war zone? asked Rep. Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight Committee. But that's exactly what our government did....
