In a related story I saw the other day troops are complaining that their rifles are having a serious jamming problem. You’d think they would have fixed that in forty years.

dogsoldier on October 15, 2009 at 1:32 PM

Maybe some “pork” for M1A,socom,and scouts.Naw, that won’t work. Those kids volunteered,they can buy their own. Besides,those mattels jammed in Nam and it didn’t get all of us killed. Screw those retarded senile sob’s in congress and all their crooked marxist buddies.I suppose next there will be a study to determine if funds should be spent for a beer ration for the troops as many in the combat zone are “under age”!!!

When will we say, “To Arms?”

hawkdriver on October 15, 2009 at 1:30 PM

Never. They’ll find the money to deal with troublesome “teabaggers”, yes, even if they have to print it and *gasp* forgo their Great Society programs and pork. Hell, they’ll hire Hessians and French Foreign Legionnaires to come over here to deal with homegrown troublemakers if need be.

Also, didn’t read every single post, but where are the Libtards? I remember reading on Jake Tapper’s site months ago where they were going on about how the ObamaNation (includes the Dumocrat Congress, naturally) had increased military spending…never really saw where they got that from anyway.

As for “repair centers”, the Georgia National Guard’s artillery brigade learned the hard way about circumventing PMCS when their $hit was breaking down left and right at the NTC prior to Desert Storm. That is, keep up on the stuff daily and lessen the need for heavy maintenance.

As a long-time Mainer I’m familiar with Snowe and not much impressed by her – her constituent service is terrible – but the ‘Humvee’ rap is a bum rap.

The first direct stimulus reports showed that stimulus contracts saved or created just 30,083 jobs, prompting more Republican criticism of the $787 billion package.

$25 million for the Hawaii Federal Health Care Network – Inouye again. Hey, shouldn’t that come from Health and Human Services rather than Defense?

Not if most of their federal workers are Pearl Harbor. But I don’t know the details.

First of all, the MSSS already exists, and this money is for keeping it going. Second, the work done there is heavily DOD-related.

Del Dolemonte on October 15, 2009 at 1:32 PM

If this is such a worthy cause – why did it have to be funded via an earmark? If the DOD needs this effort I imagine they already pay for what is done on DOD’s behalf.

$20 million for a Maui Space Surveillance System – Senator Daniel Inouye. (Perhaps the Moon may counterattack soon!)
$25 million for the Hawaii Federal Health Care Network – Inouye again. Hey, shouldn’t that come from Health and Human Services rather than Defense?

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I guess it could also be the ‘Kenne ……

$20 million for Humvee maintenance – Sponsored by Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins, this actually sounds like a war priority, until you find out that the Humvees in question are all in Maine.

Lemme guess, this is to “green up” these Humvees, right?

The left hates the military and the USA. They are disgusting and should be the ones shipped over to Afghanistan without ammo or body armor. But they’re never about real life experiences, only their fantasy utopian socities. It is WAY PAST TIME to kick the liberals out of the US of A. Shove them all into California, Oregon and Washington state. Have at it, creating your little Orwellian dream on the west coast and leave the rest of us the heck ALONE.

The folks in Congress who vote for these pork-ladened appropriations are reprehensible lunatics. Traitors. Idiots.

highhopes on October 15, 2009 at 2:10 PM

Yes, they always like to have that ‘we know better than you’ attitude that seeps through their responses.

The guy’s whole campaign was based on telling the military that they were dying in Iraq for a lie, for oil, etc.

Now he has the gall to want to ramp up efforts in Afghanistan?

Yes sir, I’ll volunteer to take up the flag for a guy who basically kicked his predecessor in the nuts every day in an obvious and crass attempt to steal political power.

I want to be led by a guy who shot my last leader in the bac, yes sir.

$20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat.

Hmm…wonder if swim lessons will be available there.