I understand the Pentagon is going to grant up to $100 to fund a high-school business principles club’s search for the ***$6.5 trillion*** it already can’t account for. Money well spent.
So.Much.Warfare.
Too bad that none of the goes to help the American lives ruined by previous excursions. All is just to ruin more American lives of our children and grandchildren.
There is something awful about all of this.
ETA: none of these new toys will be ready for his parade later this year. Wonder if he knows that yet.
Ah, well, maybe the munitions manufacturers will pick up all that cheap labor from Carrier and Kimberly-Clark and all those others that are laying off workers.
“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.”
President Eisenhower
Wow. Thanks for that historic quote. Let’s make America …like that… again.
This is the spending that just kills me. Every. Time. Because every time it comes up, all of my representatives Democratic or Republican support it reflexively. It’s Patriotic!
OT: Looks like someone was convicted of voter fraud:
GREELEY, Colo. – The former chairman of the Colorado Republican Party was sentenced to four years of probation and 300 hours of community service for voter fraud. Steve Curtis blamed a “major diabetic episode” for causing him to vote his ex-wife’s absentee ballot in October 2016.
Curtis, 57, told District Judge Julie Hoskins Friday it was “a customary thing” for him to fill out his wife’s ballot and he didn’t know it was illegal, but he said he didn’t remember doing it.
In October of 2016, Kelly Curtis called the Weld County Clerk and Recorder’s Office to obtain her mail-in ballot. She was told she had already voted, CBS Denver reports (CBS Denver).
Testing, One Billion, Two Billion, Three Billion. Is this microphone on? Testing.
That right there is the best definition of “American Hero” I’ve ever read.
As an aside, too bad our military hasn’t been upgraded for the modern era, in which economic, political and internet/social media warfare are the main forms of aggression. Maybe if we lose another few trillions dollars the problem will just sort itself out eventually. In the meantime, I’m going to brush up on my Russian and Mandarin.
This makes me sick. A woman lets her husband tell her how to vote. And these liars always have an “excuse” for their behavior.
I think there’s more women out there like that than we realize. Probably some overlap with the ones susceptible to abusive and corrosive relationships. Like… Hope Hicks?
What the hell are they making, “Beam me up, Scotty.” transporters? 700 BILLION?!?! Good fahriggin Gawd.
Welfare works.
It’s better when it’s applied to pro-life values.
Pentagon audit. That’s all I can say.
That’s far more in defense spending than America’s two nearest competitors, China and Russia,
Shit, that’s more than the sum of China and Russia plus the next eighteen on the list. We are such stupid assholes to go along with this hypermilitarization. Our budget is a statement of our values.
“The budget bill that President Donald Trump signed Friday includes huge spending increases for the military…”
This is grotesque. This is Democracy dying. Hand the purse strings to flag-wrapped military contractors, scaring the terrified public into a lockstep “patriotism”. They suck the resources (paid for by the wage slaves) directly into the pockets of the war machine making oligarchs, who buy the congress willing to sell the deal to a barely conscious public, who remain obsessed with guns, abortions and minorities. Yup, close the lid, we’re all done here.
I don’t mean to suggest any of this is new.
So $88 billion to build 200 planes in the Antelope Valley. Sounds like a great way to spend $88 billion, double the entire US foreign aid budget. Here’s the irony, Russia has reduced its military spending, preferring to crack a beer and watch the Americans burn money on their front lawn.
Exactly! I mean if we got ten or so iMacs, a nice windowless basement room, a crew of computer nerds and a few pizzas, couldn’t we equal what Russia is already accomplishing with their military?
WHY is America stuck in 1953 in almost every conceivable metric?
Yet, SOMEHOW the Pentagon will not be able to find ANY MONEY to provide things like;
- Body Armor, boots, helmets, backpacks, and small-arms weapons that are not 30-40 years old.
- Decent pay so 30% of US military don’t have to live on FOOD STAMPS and WELFARE.
- VA funding so injured troops get the health care they deserve.
- Trucks, transport ships, food, water, fuel, decent housing, and mental health care for troops in the field.
On the other hand, LOTS of 2 and 3-star Generals can look forward to cushy 7-figure lifetime contracts with Defense Industry Companies once they “retire” at 35 with full benefits and start lobbying their former junior officers for said “Defense” companies.
Money.
Next question?