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The spaceships being built with technology from the stargate program ain't cheap.
I am not about to quibble over spaceships that have saved us multiple times from alien annihilation.
CIA/FBI/NSA/DHS/NSA run about $80B - $100B /year by estimates, but yes, many of their numbers are secret, and many of their operations are illegal and out-of-reach of Congressional oversight. CIA is pretty much a rogue country unto itself.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 08-12-2011 at 05:50 PM.
The spaceships being built with technology from the stargate program ain't cheap.
I am not about to quibble over spaceships that have saved us multiple times from alien annihilation.
not sure if serious
military thieves tbh
Trillions?
A trillion could buy about 50,000 fighter jets.
The US military has around 2500 fighter jets.
Yes, trillions. And 100s of $Ms of those make their MIC way into Congressman's pockets, campaign WARchests, and Congressmens' families' "charities", foundations, projects.
Your math is bad as or you're talking about older planes. The cost for a new f22 at this point is 140 million.
Yeah, I was using 20 mil - the cost of an F16, which is an old model. Just trying to give some sense of scale. A trillion is not easily misplaced.
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Hey, I agree, but still... we didn't pay 10 trillion from the defenses budget. At worse, I can see them maybe not accounting for $1 trillion, but $10 trillion is almost 20% more than they had to work with!
Hey, at least the monetary unaccountability isn't by long scale numbering.
A trillion would buy 222 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers (the Navy has a grand total of 11).
So, you can see where I'm skeptical of trillionS gone missing.
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