Pericles
Please sir can I leave now my brain is full of troof so I have no room for facts!

Guess who?

Steven
1977 huh obviously a late bloomer.

;-)

Ive been with Credit unions since the late 60's
Did you have the foreign loans bank scandal in SA.
We did here and it really ran amok. lots of farmers lost packets thanks to bigger banks.

I have a conundrum
Who do I believe least Journalist/Columnists/talk back radio hosts politicians, Bankers, Lawyers,Big pharma, Life science corp, Corps generally, insurance people or sociopaths ? That is if they aren't all sociopaths anyway.
The catch 22 applies to these professions (?)

Pericles let's hear it from the mouth of Rumsfeld himself. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4GdHLUHwU There is no way that any accounting system cannot account for such large sums of money.This was then,three times our GDP.You could perhaps not account for a couple of billion,but never in any one's wildest dreams a sum of this stupendous amount.

Jim Minnery was silenced for wanting to trace just $300 million.
Can you provide a source to say that the $2.3 trillion was found?

Only the Americans can lose 3 times more than their annual budget. The US defence budget is less than $700billion annually.

If someone was squirreling away 2.3 trillion, they must have been doing it for a bloody long time without detection.

Maybe since the Roswell incident?

Errr... that was the same speech for which you now have the complate transcript, Arjay.

>>Pericles let's hear it from the mouth of Rumsfeld himself...<<

The amount itself is irrelevant.

>>You could perhaps not account for a couple of billion,but never in any one's wildest dreams a sum of this stupendous amount.<<

If your systems are stuffed, you could be unable to reconcile $10 as easily as $10 billion.

>>Jim Minnery was silenced for wanting to trace just $300 million.<<

I suspect he might have been reassigned for "criss-crossing the country" looking for a bookkeeping error.

>>Can you provide a source to say that the $2.3 trillion was found?<<

You cannot find something that hasn't been lost, Arjay.

Except for my car keys, of course, which seem to hover between dimensions like Schrödinger's cat.

If it were just an accounting error as you suggest Pericles,why bother even alerting the public ? How do get an accounting error 3 times your annual budget.