Where is the Money Going

Where is the Money going?

A peek inside the Black Budget.

By ABH Alexander

Over the years every American citizen has probably wondered how much of our taxpayer dollars are truly wasted. The late, great Senator William Proxmire legitimized these concerns with his famous Golden Fleece Awards for government programs, which go below the threshold of tolerance for idiocy.

Currently the Citizens Against Government Waste mention on their website www.cagw.org, in their 2006 Pig Book there are 9,963 projects in the 11 appropriations bills that constitute the discretionary portion of the federal budget for fiscal 2006, costing taxpayers $29 billion. In other worlds that is the approximate size of the pork barrel in Washington.

Another area we as citizens should not tolerate is how many of these valuable dollars are funneled into activities which may not be in the best interests of America, or worse yet be a part of a secretive agenda by those who are not elected.

Recently, with the hanging of Saddam Hussein and his exposure as a long time CIA asset some people began asking questions. While many people make knee jerk decisions about the opinions they hold this article will be addressing a rarely discussed issue which has much broader implications than one political party, one president, one hanging of another tyrannical CIA asset (remember Ferdinand Marcos? Manuel Noriega?)

In the beginning there was a budget for the Federal Government. Furthermore, our constitution guaranteed us we would be informed as to how they spent the money (see Article 1, Sec. 9. Clause 7).

If you've been paying more attention to the bread and circuses than the accelerating demise of the United States of America you may have missed the increasing erosion of what we truly know of government expenditures. In the intelligence community this unaccounted for funding is generally referred to as the "Black Budget".

Upon mounting a Google search there were a lot of matches but very few dealing with the Black Budget in particular. Amongst the information garnered was this interesting tidbit:

U.S. DEFENSE BUDGETS AND MILITARY SPENDING