In the month of November the Department of Defense (?) awarded $ 8,846,850,688 for the construction and modification of U.S. Navy vessels. That’s a lot of taxpayer dollars that should have been put to more sensible and saner use. Here’s a published list of the admitted contracts, but with the recent indictments of high ranking Naval personnel because of “mishandled” funding – well, we’ll never really get an accurate account of what’s being shelled out for killing instruments.

Nov. 1st PAE Applied Technologies LLC, Fort Worth TX $ 23,246,532

Nov. 4th BAE Systems, Wayne, NJ $ 48,000,000
ViaSet, Carlsbad, CA $ 39,182,647
Data Link Solutions LLC, Cedar Rapids, IA $ 32,874,867
General Dynamics, Groton, CT $ 18,195,519
Thales Communication Inc., Clarksburg, MD $ 8,815,933
Rockwell Collins Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA $ 6,539,431

Nov. 5th Bechtel Marine, Corp., San Francisco, CA $ 484,680,000
DRS C3 & Aviation Co., Chesapeake, VA $ 50,892,583
Phoenix Air Group Inc., Cartersville, GA $ 23,153,136
Northrop Grumman Systems, Herndon, VA $ 18,533,888
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, MO $ 13,740,115
Lockheed Martin Corp., Owego, NY $ 10,458,900
Lockheed Martin Systems, Sunnyvale, CA $ 803,235,443

Nov. 6th Heil Trailer International, Gatesville, TX $ 9,721,600
Northrop Grumman Systems, Charlottesville, VA $ 27,526,385
General Electric Co., Lynn, MA $ 8,048,888
Huntington Ingalls Inc., Newport News, VA $ 7,319,933

Nov. 7th Ultra Armstrong LLC, Kings Mountain, NC $ 15,000,000
CTC Enterprise Ventures, Johnstown, PA $ 14,205,582
Trimble Navigation Ltd, Dayton, OH $ 12,788,333
The Boeing Company, St. Louis, Mo $ 8,343,276
General Dynamics, Groton, CT $ 7,103,796
Weston Solutions Inc., West Chester, PA $ 6,576,624

Nov. 8th Hydroid, Inc., Pocasset, MA $ 26,231,287
CACI Technologies, Chantilly, VA $ 14,162,860

Nov. 12th Maersk Line Ltd., Norfolk, VA $ 73,677,038
General Dynamics, Falls Church, VA $ 49,999,999

Nov. 13th ManTech Systems Engineering Corp., Fairfax, VA $ 24,248,855

Nov. 14th Rockwell Collins Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA $ 46,582,848
Electric Boat Corp., Groton, CT $ 22,484,873
General Electric Aviation, Grand Rapids, MI $ 13,587,842
Bell Helicopter, Hurst, TX $ 8,266,644

Nov. 15th L-3 Communications, Waco, TX $ 96,370,902
Electric Boat, Groton, CT $ 28,894,385
General Dynamics, Portsmouth, VA $ 11,398,788

Nov. 18th TerraGroup Corp., Allentown, PA $ 49,900,000
Delta Resources Inc., Alexandria, VA $ 43,042,246
Bell Boeing Joint Project, Amarillo, TX $ 9,256,869

Nov. 19th Multiple-award contracts to 914 contractors $ 5,300,000,000
BSC Partners LLC., Binghamton, NY $ 30,456,711
PPG Industries, Pittsburgh, PA $ 44,516,439
Emprise Corp., Ledyard, CT $ 26,719,053
Ensign-Bickford Aerospace, Simsbury, CT $ 8,650,874

Nov. 20th Pacific Architects & Engineers, Fort Worth, TX $ 44,577,164
The Boeing Co., Seattle, WA $ 26,879,866
Vigor Marine LLC., Portland, OR $ 15,214,713
Glidepath Technologies, Harrisburg, PA $ 12,205,945
General Dynamics, San Diego, CA $ 12,144,761
The Boeing Co., Seattle, WA $ 10,119,307
General Dynamics, Groton, CT $ 163,999,997
General Dynamics, Groton, CT $ 8,000,000
Exelis, Inc. Fort Wayne, IN $ 7,028,919

Nov. 21st Silver Ships, Inc. et al, Theodore, AL $ 25,465,508
Bell Helicopter, Hurst,TX $ 13,929,461
G4S Government Solutions, Palm Beach Gardens, FL $ 11,495,146
Onyx-Ace Joint Venture, Honolulu, HI $ 10,000,000

Nov. 22nd Bell Boeing Joint Project, Amarillo, TX $ 33,023,240
Raytheon Co., Tewksbury, MA $ 17,000,000
Lockheed Martin, Orlando, FL $ 13,297,674

Nov. 25th Kings bay Support Services, Baton Rouge, LA $ 109,668,695
The Boeing Company, St. Louis, MO $ 37,338,608
Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, AZ $ 15,940,631
CACI-Federal, Chantilly, VA $ 35,541,117
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Largo, FL $ 7,097,447

Nov. 26th Rolls Royce Corp., Indianapolis, IN $ 57,146,970
BAE Systems, Nashua, NH $ 28,167,428
Atlantic NICC Joint Venture, Falls Church, VA $ 97,500,000
Atlantic NICC Joint Venture, Falls Church, VA $ 19,500,000
BREMCOR Joint Venture, Arlington, VA $ 129,287,881
Bell-Boeing Joint Project, Amarillo, TX $ 18,064,906
Motorola Solutions, Inc., Columbia, MD $ 48,429,904
US Information Technologies, Chantilly, VA $ 12,952,659
Insitu Inc., Bingen, WA $ 8,845,101

Nov. 27th Toyon Research Corp., Goleta, CA $ 42,282,088
Raytheon Co., San Diego, CA $ 32,388,530
Helix Electric, Inc., San Diego, CA $ 24,973,000
Northrop Grumman, San Diego, CA $ 13,857,607
Rockwell Collins, Inc., Richardson, TX $ 10,834,820
Raytheon Co., Tucson, AZ $ 9,720,715
Drew Marine USA Inc., Whippany, NJ $ 9,202,490
The Hana Group, Honolulu, HI $ 27,096,766

That eight billion plus dollars – much of it directed to companies we’ve never heard of – could have created thousands of employment opportunities in the U.S., but that isn’t what our handlers want. They need to get their hands on as much money as possible – skimming is what’s important.

Although our main concern is the construction of non-combative and profitable vessels as opposed to war-making vessels, we’ve often wondered what the Department of Defense (?) is awarding to others every month. So we took the time this month to look into it. We almost vomited. Look at these giveaways:

– Special Operations Command $ 9,999,820
– U.S. Transportation Command $ 226,491,820
– Missile Defense Agency $ 343,704,000
– Washington Headquarters Services $ 896,975,817
– U.S. Army $ 1,740,630,160
– Defense Logistics Agency $ 3,508,590,488
– U.S. Air Force $ 7,960,200,003

Those figures add up to $ 14,686,597,301, and when you combine this money with what the Navy was given – $ 8,846,850,688 – the staggering monthly cost to taxpayers comes to $ 23,533,447,989.

CNN and Fox dutifully refrain from reporting these expenditures, of course, and besides, even if they did, the average American wouldn’t even bat an eye. They still believe the Arabs were responsible for the 9/11 fiasco.

Next month the DoD will spend another 23 billion dollars. And the next month, and the month after that they’ll continue the ripoff. And if you think our nation’s situation is hopeless – you’re right.