On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Eugen Leitl <[email protected]> wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Mirimir <[email protected]> -----
>>> From: Mark McCarron <[email protected]> >>> Did no one notice trillions are being drained from the US economy >>> into some unidentified military project for the last decade or more??? >>> >>> It would seem to indicate that there is a Manhatten-style project underway. >>> do you have any links or additional info about this? beyond the vague >> sense of large black budgets, I'm not sure exactly what you might be >> referring to. > Well, the modern NSA _is_ a Manhattan-scale project. According to > So, even counting cleanup costs, they're comparable. > Perhaps Mark can add some specifics that haven't come out yet. > http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/08/29/your-cheat-sheet-to-americas-secret-intelligence-budget/ http://www.martingrandjean.ch/data-visualization-top-secret-us-intelligence-budget/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_intelligence_budget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community They're comparable but already reasonably well "identified" and with reasonably known budgets... Manhattan/Hanford, wars, Intel Community Budget, Social Programs, and so on. This new claim of "some unidentified military project for the last decade or more" to the '$trillions' size needs substantiated. That's $100+B/yr of new money, rather hard to hide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_megaprojects https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Economy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_federal_budget
