I saw this at Brock’s Free North Carolina Site.
I cared about this until I saw it was in the Washington Post. After their election coverage, I don’t believe a single thing they print, not even the date. The WP can be depended on to even lie about the horoscopes. But I did go back and read the story because I work at the Pentagon and I wanted to see if they were reporting about me and I should be watching for the 60 minutes van to pull up in my driveway. And (after breathing a sigh of relief) the story made me angry. It is just more yellow journalism by writers who wouldn’t know how to really investigate anything to save their own mothers.
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Thanks for the link love.
ReplyDeleteCertainly, My Dear.........:)
Delete"We don’t buy our supplies “just in time”, we buy them “just in case”. We intentionally buy things we hope we will never use, (looking at you, nuclear arsenal). We intentionally stockpile uniforms, guns, fuel and munitions well in excess of our annual needs."
ReplyDeletePeople need to think on that. Bush and more with Obama buy military good from China. What happens when they stop the supply?
However, saying that I do feel many American contractors have screwed Americans. They see the Military and Government as free-play slot machines. Cost-plus contracts are an invitation to pad the costs. There is something inherently wrong with a system where the purchaser has a standing multi-million dollar job offer waiting from the seller.
I would love to see military spending increased to a point we can really defend America (not the whole world.) I also want to see those dollars spent with care. Look over the contracts the way I compare prices at the grocery store. And yes, there are times I choose to spend more because the quality is better. I do not however, just buy the most expensive because it says it is better.
Just a thought, those buying supplies should be banned for life from working for those suppliers. Even if there is no corruption, the appearance say there is. Spend billions of dollars buying, then retire and work for the company you gave billions to in contracts. It is a flawed system.
There are no easy or simple answers. We do need to being back the idea that government is not an endless piggy bank to be looted. Not just with the military but in every aspect. Senior citizens receive less than twenty thousand a year in benefits after paying in a lifetime. Congressmen and Senators receive over a hundred thousand a year after paying nothing. Seems a problem to me...
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Good comment and absolutely: "the appearance say there is."
Delete"Senior citizens receive less than twenty thousand a year in benefits after paying in a lifetime. Congressmen and Senators receive over a hundred thousand a year after paying nothing. "
ReplyDeleteThat's because senior citizens were paying a tax, not investing in a retirement plan. Congressmen were getting a benefit from their employer, as an employee (which they gave themselves). They are not comparable.
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