$6.6 Billion Just Shows Up One Day

[image error]Okay, so I'm not entirely an understanding individual when it comes to the sheer amount of money our government seems to go through.  But, in news today it seems that $6.6 billion in lost Iraq cash is all of a sudden accounted for says inspector Bowen, specal inspector for Iraq reconstruction…

$6.6 billion in lost Iraq cash now accounted for, inspector says | The Envoy – Yahoo! News

Now, I've lost like $10 a couple of times.  One time I even managed to lose $100.  There was a weekend where I blew through about $500, and woke up on Sunday wondering where that was.  But, that really doesn't count.  I blew that!

So, $6.6 billion huh?  It's an easy thing for the government to just lose $6.6 billion?

But, oh wait!  They found it!  In fact, it was never missing.  It was there all along.  It was just not accounted for apparently.

"Hey guys, I found that money!"

"What money?"

"The $6.6 billion we lost during the war."

"Oh yeah?  That's great!  Where was it?"

"Uh, right here.  Behind this book."

Warren Buffett wouldn't even be able to missplace $6.6 billion.  But a quote I heard from him recently says it all, "I could end the deficit in 5 minutes. You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP all sitting members of congress are ineligible for reelection."

Hmm, I wonder what he'd do about this…!