The Biggest American Swindle Ever Pulled Off

Somebody close down the Pentagon before it flushes America into the Potomac River. We can’t afford a Green New Deal at an estimated cost of $15 trillion, Pandemic relief is somewhere around $1.5 trillion, with another three in the pipeline and on and on.

Getting America back on its feet is at risk of the swindle

According to Bloomberg’s Anthony Carpaccio, the Department of Defense made $35 trillion in “accounting adjustments” in 2019, easily surpassing the $30.7 trillion in such adjustments recorded in 2018.

Last time I looked, adjustments meant someone had their hand in the cookie-jar. But it must be a hell of a big piece of crockery.

Carpaccio notes that “the number dwarfs the $738 billion of defense-related funding in the latest U.S. budget, a spending plan that includes the most expensive weapons systems in the world including the F-35 jet as well as new aircraft carriers, destroyers and submarines.” It’s also “larger than the entire U.S. economy and underscores the Defense Departmen…