Where are the taxpayers???

We are nine years in the war in Afghanistan and nobody still has a clue where the billions of dollars, literally coming out of the pockets of good American taxpayers, are spent. After all America is a model democracy and the mismanagement of billions going unaccounted for here leaves no hope of accountability and transparency anywhere else...pretty grim...one of those sad but true realities of life.

According to the website of SIGA (The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction), this organization was set up six or seven years after the war "to provide independent and objective oversight of these funds" being used in Afghanistan. The first question is why so late. The second question is why it took SIGA two years to find out that nobody knows where the money is spent. The third question, perhaps the most important one, is what is going to happen as a result of this finding. Although it is pretty late, it is till not "too late" to get our acts together, follow the money, coordinate our efforts (not just those coming from within the US but internationally) and give Afghans and the taxpayers the biggest bang for their buck. It doesn't seem like too much to ask, but without the united voice of the taxpayers, who are the only ones who have a true claim to these billions, there is little hope for change.

Read the NPR article for more details...click here.