Posted on 08/13/2010 7:54:20 PM PDT by aimhigh
The link at Thomas.gov for HR 1586 doesn't work because Congress doesn't want the details of this bill revealed. Congress paid for the teacher bailout with defense cuts. Here are some of the "recissions":
Sec. 303. Of the funds appropriated in Department of Defense Appropriations Acts, the following funds are rescinded from the following accounts in the specified amounts:
‘Aircraft Procurement, Army, 2008/2010’, $21,000,000;
‘Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army, 2008/2010’, $21,000,000;
‘Procurement of Ammunition, Army, 2008/2010’, $17,000,000;
‘Other Procurement, Army, 2008/2010’, $75,000,000;
‘Weapons Procurement, Navy, 2008/2010’, $26,000,000;
‘Other Procurement, Navy, 2008/2010’, $42,000,000;
‘Procurement, Marine Corps, 2008/2010’, $13,000,000;
‘Aircraft Procurement, Air Force, 2008/2010’, $102,000,000;
‘Missile Procurement, Air Force, 2008/2010’, $28,000,000;
‘Procurement of Ammunition, Air Force, 2008/2010’, $7,000,000;
‘Other Procurement, Air Force, 2008/2010’, $130,000,000;
‘Procurement, Defense-Wide, 2008/2010’, $33,000,000;
‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army, 2009/2010’, $76,000,000;
‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force, 2009/2010’, $164,000,000;
‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide, 2009/2010’, $137,000,000;
‘Operation, Test and Evaluation, Defense, 2009/2010’, $1,000,000;
‘Operation and Maintenance, Army, 2010’, $154,000,000;
‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy, 2010’, $155,000,000;
‘Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps, 2010’, $25,000,000;
‘Operation and Maintenance, Air Force, 2010’, $155,000,000;
‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide, 2010’, $126,000,000;
‘Operation and Maintenance, Army Reserve, 2010’, $12,000,000;
‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy Reserve, 2010’, $6,000,000;
‘Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps Reserve, 2010’, $1,000,000;
‘Operation and Maintenance, Air Force Reserve, 2010’, $14,000,000;
‘Operation and Maintenance, Army National Guard, 2010’, $28,000,000; and
‘Operation and Maintenance, Air National Guard, 2010’, $27,000,000.
(Excerpt) Read more at govtrack.us ...
You will also note that the title of the bill has nothing to do with the text of the bill. They gutted the old language and inserted new text. But they kept the old title to ensure no one would find it. Scumbags.
Insanity.
What’s a few more dead soldiers when you can have dozens of “Democrats” re-election campaigns funded..
later
Regime Change begins at home...
Can’t wait to see how many teachers jobs get “saved”.
In our area, the cuts have already happened and the school budgets have already been voted upon.
They can’t bring back teachers w/o putting it up to the vote, and the public isn’t in the mood.
The progressives in Washington are destroying this economy to create a worse crisis than the 2008 melt-down. We are headed for complete government control. Grab onto your possessions, because they would like to take everything you own and all your freedom away, all in the name of fairness and redistribution of wealth. The gloves have come off and they are embolddened enough to dare you to challenge them. Pray for our country.
Wow. Thanks for posting that. Quite an eyeful of cuts. Not only Defense either. It’s quite obvious that they were able to go after quite a few federal agencies in order to give this gift to the unions.
It’s quite the stomach turner, I must say.
Don’t ya just want to email Lieberman with this info.
Useless piece of work he is.
That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
It's coming again.
bfl
“Transparency” my azz. This makes Watergate look like a fly swat. Every voting citizen should see this and understand that the Democrats/Progressives are snake oil salesmen. This makes my blood boil. Un-freakin’-believable.
The amusing thing is that they sit there and pass “truth in lending” type bills and dictate to banks how to clean up corrupted loan practices.
It would seem that we need a “truth in legislation” law, just to clean up incompetent games like this.
And to make this kind of pointed...this really sounds like something that they’d do in a third-world country like Bolivia.
Who is surprised? As long as I can remember, everytime in power the dems have routinely stolen money from the military to pissaway on worthless dem supporters.
yes screw our guys and the country but bail the unions..and finance the Democrat elections. where do you guys think all this unaccounted for money is going..???
yes screw our guys and the country but bail the unions..and finance the Democrat elections. where do you guys think all this unaccounted for money is going..???
Exactly, the big cuts in Florida happened prior to last school year ( 2009-2010). I was paying tuition for classes today when I overheard some administrators talking about how they could bring back administrative staff with the new funds, as all the teaching positions they had students to justify were filled.
As the father of a National Guardsman deploying to Iraq, this does not make me happy.
The dim-communist party ought to be outlawed and its members tried and shot for treason.
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