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Giant Pentagon Budget Is Unauditable Year After Year

Posted on October 7, 2013 by peace

by Ralph Nader, Huffington Post
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The federal government is currently in a state of shutdown thanks to a small faction of extremist Republicans who vehemently bellow that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have a catastrophic … Read More

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Pentagon Spent $5 Billion on Weapons on the Eve of the Shutdown

Posted on October 3, 2013 by peace

by John Reed, Foreign Policy
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The Pentagon pumped billions of dollars into contractors’ bank accounts on the eve of the U.S. government’s shutdown that saw 400,000 Defense Department employees furloughed.

All told, the Pentagon awarded 94 contracts yesterday … Read More

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The Government Shutdown Could Cost $300 Million Per Day

Posted on October 3, 2013 by peace

by Jillian Berman, The Huffington Post
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The price of political incompetence? About $300 million per day.

That’s how much a government shutdown will cost the U.S. in lost economic output, according to an analysis from IHS Global Insight. As Bloomberg … Read More

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