Don't forget The M247 Sergeant York" anti-aircraft vehicle. 
All that machinery to carry two 40MM guns to use against the heavily-armored Russian helicopters. At the least, they could have used the existing 30MM Gatling from the A-10s.
Posted on 05/13/2021 3:26:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
Everyone knows someone who is horrible with money; some friend or acquaintance who is always up to their neck in credit card debt no matter how much money they earn. You probably try to avoid seeing this person as much as possible because it’s always the same old story when you do. Sadly, rather than remove these people from our lives, we’ve elected them to Congress and they keep sticking us with the check.
This isn’t about Republicans or Democrats, they’re both horrible when it comes to spending. The only differences between the two parties on spending is Republicans pretend to be responsible when they’re not in power, Democrats don’t even bother anymore. That makes Republicans slightly less horrible on spending, which is a little like ranking history’s greatest monsters based on the method of destruction.
But make no mistake, the destruction is coming.
Remember the $100 trillion bill from Zimbabwe? We all laughed when their corrupt government printed denominations that large to keep up with inflation and deficit spending. (I own a couple somewhere, you can still buy them on eBay.) As funny as we found it, people were seriously hurt by it. Thanks to our elected officials and their profligate spending under the guise of “emergency” during the pandemic, we’re a lot closer to a $100 trillion bill of our own.
Why bring this up? It’s not like government setting huge piles of our money on fire is something new, and COVID has only given politicians more cover than public indifference did to waste money. But you’d think a pandemic we’re constantly being told is an emergency requiring prioritizing important things would lead to a break in the traditional waste in government, but you’d be wrong. It’s only served as cover for more of the same.
When it comes to earmarks, both parties are horrible. They’re now trying to call this pork “Congressionally Directed Spending” rather than earmarks, thinking it somehow sounds better. It kind of does, as long as you don’t think about it. The real problem isn’t whether Congress directs where the money is spent or some faceless bureaucrat does, it’s the spending in the first place.
Here are some examples of what Members of Congress think are important enough to spend our great-grandchildren’s money on (let’s be honest, our money, our kid’s money, and our grandkid’s money is already long gone at this point).
Representative Kathy Castor (D-Florida) earmarked $7.7 million for a street car project in Tampa, because it’s 1900 again, or something.
Representative Don Young (R-Alaska) earmarked $18.6 million for a fire station in Kodiak, Alaska, which we have to assume will be made out of 24-karat gold.
Forbes reports Congress is spending “$40 million for museums including a $3.75 million request by Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL) to upgrade the Waukegan Carnegie Museum through the local park district. In fact, there were 29 earmarks with the word “museum” in the description and requests included a new $6.4 million Gandhi museum (Rep. Al Green D-TX); $2.2 million for the new Bahamian Museum of Art & Culture in Coconut Grove (Rep. Frederica Wilson D-FL); and $792,000 to repair the New England Motorcycle Museum (Rep. Joe Courtney D-CT).”
That’s just a tiny slice of the pie, our pie, they’re divvying up to bolster their reelection prospects. Sound responsible to you?
Of course, our government has never been responsible. Nothing illustrates this like the Pentagon and the saga of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. I’ve written about it before because it’s likely the biggest boondoggle in history. As The Hill describes it, “A projected cost over $1.7 trillion. A fighter jet that exhibits everything from structural cracks to cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Twenty years in development — and it still can’t shoot straight and is rarely ready to fly when it is needed.” Of course it’s still being funded, so why not a street car system?
The F-35 reminds me of the movie “The Pentagon Wars” about the development of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle. It’s hilarious and sad at the same time. Billions in cost overruns, failure after failure, but a determination to continue because why not? When it’s not your money, and there are no limits or accountability, what’s to stop you?
That’s what Congress is now – children with a black Amex card and absentee, alcoholic parents who mistake being their kid’s friend for parenting. But we’re the enablers. We elect and reelected these morons, did we really think they’d get better? The only question remaining now is who do we put on our $100 trillion bill?
“But we’re the enablers.”
“We the people” to be precise.
We the people, after WWII and TV, have gotten fat and apathetic, comfy in our lifestyles, regularly entertained, and careless about our government.
The cultural Marxists, otoh, have used this time to infiltrate education and the Democrats and MSM, and indoctrinate classrooms of kids into leftist thinking.
Those kids are now adults in business and government. They are the ‘woke’.
I agree wholeheartedly that the republic died 1/7. We morons did elect the Team A and Team B hacks, including Trump, who stood by and allowed it to happen. Three unelected swampers could have stopped the three coup efforts but decided to allow them to continue. Roberts, Wray and Barr, all had the ability to immediately shut the treachery down. Unfortunately, these three were key players in perpetrating the coups. Who put them in position to destroy the constitution? We Team B stooges elected the hacks who put them there. There was also one elected Team B official who could have shut these coups down immediately after he became aware of the first one.
Just pray this is an interregnum.
Are they even as smart as morons?
It seems that honor should be split between Alfred E. Neuman and Barack H. Obama. Our $100T bill should have both, one on each side.....
There. Fixed it.
We need a vaporistics test.
We’re ruled by the traitors hiding behind the morons.
They would love to use stacy abrams, but poster board won’t fit in a wallet...
Trump said it best, they are burons. Beaurocrat/moron molded together.
I want to see that one and rinosaurs both used constantly, both are very accurate. Sorry, I can’t remember who I stole rinosaurs from...
Governed by morons, led by idiots. And actions have results. Consider the phenomena of “fragging” that started when the US government started sending unqualified officers and NCO’s to lead troops in Viet Nam. The seasoned troops realized that these morons and idiots were getting more US troops killed than saved. Thus, the grunts took it upon themselves to rid their units of M & I (morons and idiots) by booby trapping the officer barracks. Maybe the American citizens are close to realizing that their “leaders” are unqualified too. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
I think they know exactly what they are doing....
WE ARE THE ENABLERS.
Don’t forget that! Politicians are like diapers. They need to be changed regularly and for the same reason - Twain
Politicians have learned to give the people what they want: free sh&t.
After three terms as governor of NH, Jean Shaheen was elected to the US Senate. When she left the executive office NH had the largest budget deficit in the history of the state.
Craig Benson ran for governor and was elected as a fiscal conservative. The majority of his campaign was self funded. He was a multimillionaire who had founded Cabletron Systems. When elected he actually CUT spending in almost all state government departments. Not the proposed increases, actual reductions from the previous budget. By the end of his two year term NH had the biggest budget surplus ever. A significant change in two years.
However, all the state employees hated him. They and all the other union employees organized together in support of his Democrat opponent a relative unknown state representative(John Lynch). Lynch was elected governor and was reelected three more times. The state returned to a budget deficit.
After Lynch did 4 terms, Maggie Hassan(dem) was elected twice. Then Chris Sununu the Rino we currently have.
Now Lynch is a Professor at Dartmouth College.
Shaheen was just reelected US Senator
Hassan won a US Senate seat 5 years ago and is up for reelection in 2022.
Chris Sununu is going to run against Hassan for US Senate.
Craig Benson returned to the private sector an is now the CEO of another company.
When trillions are spent, there is massive fraud.
Policies out of washington by our “top men” are either trying to destroy our country because they’re evil, or they are simply incompetent fools. I’m not sure which is more frightening.
Don't forget The M247 Sergeant York" anti-aircraft vehicle.
All that machinery to carry two 40MM guns to use against the heavily-armored Russian helicopters. At the least, they could have used the existing 30MM Gatling from the A-10s.
Please show more respect for morons.
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