I was watching my little weirdo alien series on Gaia again last night. 90% of it is stupid. 90% of it is not worthy anyone’s time. But occasionally they share things I did not know, and seem to have parceled out the actually interesting bits across multiple shows.
A core, recurring contention is that we have what they call a “breakaway civilization” which is funded, in the main, through diverted Federal tax revenues. Would $21 trillion be enough to do that? Of course. As recently as 2000 or so the annual budget was roughly $2 trillion. $1 trillion, self evidently, is half of that. HALF.
Here is an excerpt:
On July 26, 2016, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a report “Army General Fund Adjustments Not Adequately Documented or Supported”. The report indicates that for fiscal year 2015 the Army failed to provide adequate support for $6.5 trillion in journal voucher adjustments.
Given that the entire Army budget in fiscal year 2015 was $120 billion, unsupported adjustments were 54 times the level of spending authorized by Congress. The July 2016 report indicates that unsupported adjustments are the result of the Defense Department’s “failure to correct system deficiencies.” The result, according to the report, is that data used to prepare the year-end financial statements were unreliable and lacked an adequate audit trail. The report indicates that just 170 transactions accounted for $2.1 trillion in year—end unsupported adjustments. No information is given about these 170 transactions.
Now, the entire Federal budget was not $6.5 trillion in 2015, so these must relate to past transactions. The $21 trillion number relates to 1998 to 2015, or over $1 trillion a year, when the budgets were $2-3 trillion or so.
In what I might submit as the understatement of the year, this is not chump change. Why is no one asking questions about this?
2. I will ask again: why is everyone in our political world perfectly OK with our money being controlled by banks whose exact dealings are completely secret?
Put another way, why WOULDN’T they use this absurd system to become sickeningly wealthy at the expense of the rest of us, as seems to have happened? As I understand the math, our money supply has roughly quadrupled since 1980 or so, when the Fed used the inflation they created to get the last restraints on their action removed. ALL of that wealth went, first, to them. No doubt much of it was invested productively, as loans to expand businesses, but this is very much a “one for me, one for you” sort of situation.
It’s absurd. Ludicrous. And self evidently, if they are in on whatever game the DoD is playing, there is no limit to how much money they can give them.