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Col WEST: 'In Times of Military Cutbacks, We Should NOT Be Using Osprey Aircraft to Carry a Pooch'-
Reaganite Republican ^ | 13 August 2013 | Reaganite Republican

Posted on 08/13/2013 12:43:21 PM PDT by Reaganite Republican

Commercial flight with a pet carrier 99.7% cheaper...


Although über-patriot Allen West first made clear to Mark Levin (on his radio show Monday 8/11) that he's loathe to engage in 'small ball' with some of the more petty White House scandals, he nonetheless was asked 'how do you justify' the latest Obama middle-finger-to-America -namely, the shipping of 'Bo' the dog to Martha's Vineyard via two exotic, VERY expensive-to-operate Marine VTOL aircraft...

West responded 'You don't' justify it- labeling it 'an outrage'. With Obama -in West's eyes- 'It's not about serving... it's about being served.' He then described today's 'progressive' debt + money-printing-and-spending orgy as (in the military parlance) "a self-licking ice-cream cone".

For any not familiar with the V-22 Osprey of the US Marine Corps, the innovative hybrid plane (Bell/Boeing development inspired by Jimmy Carter's 1980 disaster-in-the-desert) can take-off with a heavy payload vertically (2x largest 'copter/24 troops), then turn the wings slowly forward and fly like a conventional prop plane.

After considerable initial controversy regarding dependability, safety, and cost overruns in the 1990s development cycle -including a real bashing on 'Sixty Minutes'- the V-22 Osprey has turned-out to be very useful in Iraq and Afghanistan, what with it's large payload and much-higher top speed (300+mph) in comparison to any helicopter. The Marine Corps have ordered 408 of the $88M aircraft, half of them already delivered.

Where we have trouble here is when our hyper-elitist Commander-in-Chief decides to dispatch two of these complex, expensive machines to the service of a left-behind-in-DC doggie: the Osprey burns $11,500 of hard-earned-taxpayer's-money per hour (not counting staff/crew's salaries and sky-high maintenance costs), meaning the 6-hour round-trip (x2) ran-up a bill over $140,000 of fuel and basic expenses for a mission of airlifting the Obamas' stupid dog to Martha's Vinyard ASAP.

This being same Obama that disingenuously cancelled 4th-of-July fireworks celebrations for enlisted men and women and then put the kaibosh on military airshows (not to mention screwing students out of White House tours and HS history classes) 'due to the sequester' at the same time he was off on a luxurious, ego-bloating $100M African rockstar tour- once again, on your dime.

As for what it OUGHT to have cost taxpayers to ship a dog to the President and his spoiled, entitlement-drunken family, I'm not going to waste anybody's time on a phantom estimate, but do note that a consumer group recently described shipping estimates to send a dog (from the USA to Germany) of $4295 'totally outrageous', going on to say 'How do these people face their God?'. 

They considered this price quote highway robbery... yet while Germany is 10x father-away from DC than Martha's Vinyard, it's still ONE HELL of a lot less than $150,000+... 97.2% less!

Truth is, most airlines ship the dog as extra-baggage for $100... meaning a White House staffer with an approved doggy carrier could have simply bought a $400 plane ticket right to Martha's Vinyard Airport (+$100 for Bo) = five-hundred bucks

Yes-  99.7% less -not even considering Marine salaries and other costs- and there via JetBlue in just 3.5 hours, a mere 30-60 minutes longer than the Ospreys take (and to the same airport).


How much fireworks/White House tours could that $150,000-200,000 of COMPLETELY blown money have bought us, Dear Leader-
you loathsome elitist fraud?

And how many million$ MORE are you blowing now, staying at a $7.6M, 5000-sq-ft Martha's Vinyard 'retreat' (surrounded by rich, white liberals), and rubbing it in our face while we are told to just suck-it-up and do without "because of the sequester"?


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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Military/Veterans; Politics
KEYWORDS: bhofascism; bhoparty; bhovacation; bo; democrats; hmx1; mv22; obama; osprey; transport
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1 posted on 08/13/2013 12:43:21 PM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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To: AdvisorB; ken5050; sten; paythefiddler; gattaca; bayliving; SeminoleCounty; chesley; Vendome; ...

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2 posted on 08/13/2013 12:44:23 PM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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3 posted on 08/13/2013 12:47:50 PM PDT by JoeProBono (Mille vocibus imago valet;-{)
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To: Reaganite Republican

This just lends more credence to the theory he is muslim, since dogs are considered unclean, no way could the pup ride with the president!


4 posted on 08/13/2013 12:49:47 PM PDT by knittnmom (Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
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To: Reaganite Republican

He says this as if there is someone in this God forsaken land that cares.


5 posted on 08/13/2013 12:49:57 PM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: Reaganite Republican
Kim Wade, a local conservative African-American radio host, pegged it perfectly. He said that most African-Americans run for political office not to make any changes or improvements for their constituency but to get preferential treatment and to be in the first car in the MLK Day parade. Michelle and Barack Obama epitomize this viewpoint.
6 posted on 08/13/2013 12:51:16 PM PDT by Malichi (!)
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To: knittnmom

I hadn’t heard that one, but makes sense... it’s not the first time he’s arrived seperately


7 posted on 08/13/2013 12:55:16 PM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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To: Reaganite Republican

Oh c’mon.. You don’t expect a Muslim to be in close quarters with a DOG on a flight, do you?


8 posted on 08/13/2013 1:12:47 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: brownsfan

True fact

And I too am a lifelong Browns fan... was down a lot in the Bernie days and I had an uncle on the roster in the Sipe era


9 posted on 08/13/2013 1:16:02 PM PDT by Reaganite Republican
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To: Reaganite Republican

bkmk


10 posted on 08/13/2013 1:16:11 PM PDT by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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To: Reaganite Republican

WWPCD (What Would President Camacho Do?)


11 posted on 08/13/2013 1:18:41 PM PDT by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Reaganite Republican

Oh come on! That cutback stuff is for the peasants! Shut your mouth and know your role!


12 posted on 08/13/2013 1:21:34 PM PDT by vpintheak (I am thankful to be God blessed & chosen! Are you!?)
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To: Malichi
most African-Americans run for political office not to make any changes or improvements for their constituency but to get preferential treatment and to be in the first car in the MLK Day parade.

Michelle and Barack Obama epitomize this viewpoint.

So does West, apparently.

13 posted on 08/13/2013 1:23:16 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I could care less if you have one...)
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To: Reaganite Republican

File it under “Last Days of the Empire.”


14 posted on 08/13/2013 1:26:02 PM PDT by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Reaganite Republican

sounds like some nasty ole Republican racis....uh...never mind


15 posted on 08/13/2013 1:28:30 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: Reaganite Republican

Much if not most of what the Left does is not because they think it’s good, in and of itself.

What motivates them are items which infuriate the Right. Then they point to our reaction and go “See, if it pisses them off, then I love it”.

This is because the Left is driven and led purely by Evil. The more Evil, the better.


16 posted on 08/13/2013 1:32:17 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: JoeProBono

My eyes aren’t as good as they once were but are a couple large bags of basketballs laying there in that pic?


17 posted on 08/13/2013 1:56:01 PM PDT by Zack Attack
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To: Reaganite Republican

Of course the MSM is outraged. :-)


18 posted on 08/13/2013 2:16:10 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Reaganite Republican

At work, I used to hear Navy Air officers comment about “screwing the pooch” —

Interpretation ... ???


19 posted on 08/13/2013 2:20:08 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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To: Malichi
"African-Americans"? You mean like Charlize Theron? Oh, I get it...you meant black Americans. Or American Negroes.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

20 posted on 08/13/2013 2:44:36 PM PDT by wku man (Amnesty? No Way, Jose (No Se Puede!) by 10 Pound Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTUQ8yOI2c)
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