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by tptacek 817 days ago
A lot of those 4000% markup stories are apparently not real, but rather accounting artifacts; they're cases where, like, a wrench bills out at $20,000, but what's actually happening is that the procurement was for a whole stealth bomber, and the cost gets spread across all the line items pro rata.
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> but rather accounting artifacts;

That is how money disappears. Like the $3 trillion that the Pentagon 'lost' and still 'cant find'.