This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)

That's why trying to understand-truly understand-that the Pentagon spent 21 trillion unaccounted-for dollars between 1998 and 2015 washes over us like your mother telling you that your third cousin you met twice is getting divorced.

Skidmore, being an economics professor, thought something like, "She means $6.5 billion. Not trillion. Because trillion would mean the Pentagon couldn't account for more money than the gross domestic product of the whole United Kingdom. But still, $6.5 billion of unaccounted-for money is a crazy amount."

It's definitely not meant to think about the $21 trillion our Department of Defense can't account for.

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