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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (1176)	3/13/2005 12:33:57 PM
From: Doug R	Respond to of 9838

Rumsfeld said it...Salon reported what Rumsfeld said. Now as to Rumsfeld's credibility...

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (1176)	3/13/2005 12:38:05 PM
From: 10K a day	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

well i heard the defense budget was 466 billion last year. not 480 billion. oh well. who can take bush serious anyway??? with the BS about Tort Reform, WMD, SS broke in 50 million years et. al. that is not supported by the facts. who cares. everybody is just howling at the moon. There is no rule of law here. It's all in who controls the media who seduces the public and who is first in the mind. it's all a smokey mirror cosmic reality of everything bush can't stand in other people... We are always just meeting ourselves....in a new cosmic reality..

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (1176)	3/13/2005 6:37:24 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

It's posted on a government web site, house.gov. Is it correct? How can I be sure? The annual budget is $400 Billion...it says that. And the article also says that 30% of the annual budget is untrackable. That would be $120 billion a year of the annual budget that just goes somewhere. The article also says that there is $1.2 trillion in "financial transactions" that cannot be tracked. And this is attributed to Rumsfeld himself. Now we'd have to know what constitutes a "financial transaction" in order to fully understand what Rumsfeld was saying. It could include a portion of the annual bugetary spending. But it also could include other transactions besides new annual spending. If you want to blow it off and say there are no problems with tracking spending in the military, I think that is totally burying your head to one of the biggest problems we face....and that is burgeoning and inefficient military spending. Orca