Who misplaces $6.2 billion?
Apparently, the government does.
Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh told reporters on Tuesday that an accounting error resulted in a $6.2 billion overestimation of the value of weapons being sent to Ukraine over the last two years.
“Once we discovered this misvaluation, the comptroller reissued guidance on March 31 clarifying how to value equipment in line with the financial management regulation and DOD policy to ensure we use the most accurate of accounting methods,” Singh said at the podium on Tuesday.
“We have confirmed that for FY 23 the final calculation is $3.6 billion, and for FY 22 it is $2.6 billion for a combined total of $6.2 billion,” she added.
Rather than use the money for Americans, the Pentagon will be keeping the money as an extra stash to support Ukraine’s counteroffensive against Russia.
Since the war began, the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress have directed more than $75 billion in military, humanitarian, and financial aid to Ukraine.
Chad Prather, like many other taxpayers, isn’t thrilled by the news.
“$6.2 billion. That’s your money, by the way,” Prather says.
“Who hasn’t misplaced $6 billion every now and then, you know?” asks Prather’s producer.
Prather, while agitated, also finds some humor in the situation.
“I wonder where I can find me one of them accounting errors. You won’t see my white a** again, I’ll be out doing submarine s**t,” he says, laughing.
“Listen guys, we got a discount here on this war. No, we’re gonna’ make sure they get that too,” Prather adds.
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Tina Jones wanted to give her friend — a Philadelphia police officer — a cake to help him celebrate 25 years of service to the department, so she decided to have a local bakery decorate it for the occasion, WPVI-TV reported.
It was a pretty simple design: "Happy 25th Anniversary" written to the officer in blue atop white frosting, his badge number — and a Philadelphia police badge with the motto, "Honor, Integrity, Service," the station said.
After Jones got the cake from the Bakery House in Bryn Mawr, a Philly suburb, her officer friend was about to bring it into his office to share with colleagues when Jones noticed the three words on the badge were a tad different, WPVI noted.
The badge motto instead read, "Coffee, Corruption, Donuts," the station said.
"I wanted to cry because I'm like, 'I can't believe they did this,'" Jones later told WPVI. "That's so humiliating to put on someone's cake who is serving 25 years and in a not-so-easy job."
Sandy Stauffer, owner of the Bakery House, told the station the offending badge decoration was used by mistake.
"My decorator is beyond upset; she's been crying all weekend, we all have been because it's mortifying," Stauffer noted to WPVI. "We are not the kind of business that would ever, ever disrespect [police]. Everyone should be respected; this was not done on purpose."
Stauffer explained to the station there were over 100 orders the decorator needed to complete, and Jones' order was near the end of the pile that day.
But when the decorator saw the image of the badge Jones provided, the decorator thought it appeared too blurry to look good on a cake, WPVI reported. Stauffer explained to the station that the decorator then went online and found a crisper, clearer image of what appeared to be the same badge.
However, the chosen replacement image instead read, "Coffee, Corruption, Donuts."
Philly Voice called attention to the bakery's Facebook page apology posted Monday — which was not online Thursday afternoon — and the outlet said the apology indicated the decorator "did not see the fine print" on the badge.
The bakery posted an explanation Wednesday that includes more detail:
What we didn't realize was that the writing at the bottom of the badge had been altered on the Internet. Unfortunately neither the decorator nor the employee that boxed the cake noticed the alteration. On top of that the customer was shown the cake, and she didn't notice the issue with the image, either. Regrettably the cake made it to the table at the party for the officer. At some point a guest noticed the writing on the badge.
This was a horrific oversight on our part. The decorator of the cake is completely devastated. She has been with the bakery for several years, this is her career and she takes it very seriously, as everyone who works here does ... Many of our customers are members of the police force, and our staff has family members in the police and veterans of the armed forces. We respect their sacrifices and value everything they do for the community.
Stauffer added to WCAU that her staff is "tired" and has been "pushed because of the staffing situation," and it was an honest mistake.
"This bakery house respects what [police] do for their living, their job; they do a great job, and I'm sorry ... please don't ever think otherwise that we don't respect the police," she told WPVI.
Jones told WPVI the bakery offered her a full refund, but she declined: "I didn't want the money back ... I knew if I accepted the money back, it [would be] like, 'It was OK what you did,' and it wasn't."
According to Philly Voice, the same altered badge image was used by Philadelphia news station WCAU, which "mistakenly" ran it on the 5 p.m. news Feb. 11 for a story about city employees, including five police officers, who died from COVID-19.
The station's use of the altered badge had Commissioner Danielle Outlaw tweeting that while she accepted WCAU's apology, "mistakes such as these can tear away at our legitimacy, & can also diminish the work of our employees who risk their safety every day ..."
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