How much money has the Pentagon wasted in recent years? (nt)

[UrbScotty]

[DebJ]

1. in lives or money? way too much any way you 'cut' it

[DebJ]

2. in lives or money? way too much any way you 'cut' it

[mopinko]

3. all of it.

[spindrifter]

4. Why can count that high--

--or does this play back into the joke that was going around last week about a stumblebum Chimp who was not sure how large a brazilian was.

[spindrifter]

5. OOPS--I meant Who can count....

[ak]

6. UMMM

a fuckin shitpile is the correct term????

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. Well, since it spends at a rate of $45,856,162 per HOUR......

I would say a pretty good percentage.

(401.7 Billion for FY '05 divided by 365 divided by 24)

Just for the heck of it, one single Aircraft Carrier costs better than $160,000,000 a year to operate or $4,383,561 a day.
(source - http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/cvn-68.htm )

('97 dollars)

[Mnemosyne]

8. As of Sept. 11, 2001 there was

2.3 TRILLION dollars that was unaccounted for which ended up quite underreported due to certain events. Then I heard recently that it was up to 3.4 TRILLION unaccounted for. So who really knows for sure? A couple bucks for sure.

Why do you ask? Is there someone in our country that will actually DO something about it now? Or are you a dreamer like me and are just hoping for a miracle? :D

[VPStoltz]

9. I can't find the source, but...

not so long ago I read that the pentagon can't account for fully 25% of it expenditures.