July 4th fireworks scrapped at a number of bases

Associated Press ^ | 6/30/13 | Jennifer C. Kerr

[Nachum]

WASHINGTON- The Fourth of July won´t have a patriotic boom in the sky over some military bases because budget cuts and furloughed workers also mean furloughed fireworks. Independence Day celebrations have been canceled at the Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base and at the Army´s Fort Bragg, both in North Carolina. The annual July Fourth celebration also has been scrapped at the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany, Ga. The reason is money - namely the lack of it. The failure in Washington to follow up a 2011 budget pact with additional spending cuts meant $85 billion across-the-board cuts

[Still Thinking]

What kind of CiC would run to Africa on the 150 year anniversary of Gettysburg, run up a tab of a $100 million for the trip, propose $7b in African aid, and then tell the men who let him sleep soundly in his bed at night to piss off?

The kind with a really, really poor grasp of strategery.

[originalbuckeye]

He REALLY wants the Military to hate him, doesn’t he?

[livius]

How much more of this can we take? He goes out of his way to insult all the decent people of this country and he just keeps on getting worse and worse and more and more arrogant and blatant about his hatred of us. By “us” I mean the ordinary, non-special-interest, peaceful and hard-working Americans.

I guess he knows that we really don’t have any recourse, since there doesn’t seem to be any political power that can stop him, so we’ll just grit our teeth and take our beating and hope that he leaves office in 3 years. Of course, there won’t be much left of the country by then.

[devolve]

[Still Thinking]

We’re only too broke for stuff he doesn’t care about and/or stuff the public really loves (either as striking back over the sequester, or trying to convince them a slightly reduced increase after three or four years of stratospheric increases is somehow crippling to the goobermint).

[griswold3]

+1

[ScottinVA]

Well, we can’t have patriotic displays honoring the nation at military bases, can we? That’d return our troops to the bad old days of reactionary hatred of all things non-traditional.

And that wouldn’t be.. FABULOUS!

[tumblindice]

Did he even mention Gettysburg today? I’ll guess not.
Our money going to every third world country, but nothing for the guys who fought, bled and died for our freedom.

[sten]

no fireworks for our troops because we’re trying to save money...

then he takes a $100 MILLION VACATION AROUND THE WORLD

anyone else had enough of their sh*t yet?

[Amagi]

I know where $100,000,000 is currently being misappropriated.

[traditional1]

Yeah; but we still have $2 billion going for Obamaphones!

[Rodamala]

[Comment Self-Censored as to prevent FR server room door from being kicked down]

[GregNH]

John Adams predicted in 1776 in a letter to his wife, Abigail, that Independence Day “ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade … bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other, from this day forward forevermore.” “Fireworks provide citizens a means to celebrate their freedoms.“