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    Interesting Qs that no-one's asked so far: Who has it? Where did the actual money go? To whose Archived Message

    Posted by Rhisiart Gwilym on December 25, 2018, 8:53 am, in reply to "The Pentagon Failed Its Audit Amid a $21 Trillion Scandal (Yes, Trillion)"

    racketeering fingers did it stick, and who has it right now? Of course, it's necessary to remember when asking such questions that much - probably most - of the 'money' currently in notional existence isn't real; just electronic conjurations in various hallucinatory accounting systems, which depend absolutely on enough of us continuing to trust them: 'the full faith and credit of the USAmerican government'; fiat-currency scams, in other words. Such stuff can evaporate back into nothing as easily as it was originally created. The noted gold-bug Michael Maloney has an often-repeated rule of thumb, drawn from the actual (invariable) historical record: "All fiat currencies go eventually to zero!"

    I can't judge whether the original tax payments that funded this huge theft were all that real either, since they were no more than the same hallucinatory electronic transactions that conjured up the alleged 'money' in the first place. But they certainly represent actual efforts made by the multitude of tax-slaves in their working lives; and they represent also other - possibly actually useful and worthwhile - payments that the slaves might have made to get goods and services that might have done them real good, if they hadn't been forced to give the alleged 'money' to the tax-gatherers.

    The obvious suspicion is that de facto ownership of the missing 'money' did actually flow into the hands of the multitude of crooks sucking at the US militarism (aka 'defense' - hah!) tit, where at least a substantial part of it was converted into - private - ownership of real, tangible assets before it could evaporate: land, gold, real estate, etc. I imagine we'll never know; and no-one will suffer any bad consequences for the scam. Just put it down to one aspect of the continuing sordid spectacle of the dilapidation and collapse of the fabric of the US empire, for future historians to contemplate in astonishment.

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