says the guy who works for Big PharmaThe_barBEARian said:Doc Holliday said:I see, so at a fundamental level it's billions in tax dollars going to the military industrial complex and benefiting solely those workers while we simultaneously can't find funds to benefit domestic hurricane victims.sombear said:[The "missing $100 billion claim is false]historian said:sombear said:historian said:
We didn't send him $100 billion.
Closer to $200 billion. He claimed $100 billion was missing. So where did it go?
Just as important, whatever the amount why wasn't it audited? For any government expenditure there should be detailed accounting so that we know exactly where all of it went. That's the problem with the fascists wasting our money: there has been almost no accountability. They have been robbing us for decades creating slush funds for all kinds of evils and using our money to tyrannies us.
Trump & Musk are doing something about this so they are heroes. Many of the loudest critics are probably in the take and belong in prison.
Since the full-scale Russian military invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the U.S. Congress has passed five Ukraine aid bills totaling $175 billion. Of that, $106 billion is designated for direct support to Ukraine, comprising some $69.8 billion in military aid, $33.3 billion for budget support, and $2.8 billion in humanitarian assistance, as tracked by the Washington, D.C.-based Council on Foreign Relations.
The remaining funds support U.S. activities related to the war in Ukraine, as well as U.S. aid to countries affected by Russia's war in Ukraine. A significant portion of the aid is spent in the U.S., funding factories and workers to produce weapons for Ukraine and replenishing Pentagon stockpiles.
A November 2023 article in The Washington Post broke down the U.S. military aid to Ukraine, reporting that most of it is spent in the U.S., used to build new weapons or replenish U.S. stockpiles, rather than going directly to Ukraine. Nearly 90% of the $68 billion in military assistance benefits American workers, with 117 production lines across 31 states and 71 cities producing weapons for Ukraine.
The Post's findings corroborated earlier estimates by Mark Cancian of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies that much of the U.S. aid for Ukraine is spent domestically.
On Feb. 5, 2025, General Keith Kellogg, President Donald Trump's special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, reaffirmed that the $174 billion of U.S. aid to Ukraine is accounted for and being distributed through a transparent process:
"The United States, the American people, the U.S. citizens have given Ukraine over $174 billion. And we have put inspector generals on the ground in Ukraine and here to track that money. So, we have fairly good reporting on where it's going," Kellogg said on the Newsmax TV channel.
Where's the audit on how much these weapons manufacturers are charging and are there profit margins through the roof? I'm willing to bet we could have spent 1/5 of the amount we have and these corporations could have still made insanely large net profits.
When tax dollars are being given to a corporation or contractor, there needs to be a limit on the profit margin because it's paid for with tax dollars. Charge whatever you want in the private sector, but not here. Also they should be completely banned from providing campaign funding, insider information or giving kickbacks.
The MIC are the biggest grifters of all... if it costs $2 million to build a missile, they'll charge the tax payer $20 million
Mr. Treehorn treats objects like women, man.
