Posted on 12/18/2014 5:33:56 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
A spokesperson for the Treasury Department told the Washington Free Beacon that survival kits being ordered for government workers at every major bank in the United States are for “emergency preparedness.”
.......“The solicitation is to replace aging kits and provide kits at additional location out of a preponderance of caution,” Collins added.
Once the government finds a bidder, each of OCC’s 3,814 employees will receive a survival kit, which will come in a fanny-pack or backpack that can fit all of the items, including a 33-piece personal first aid kit with “decongestant tablets,” a variety of bandages, and medicines.
The Treasury Department extended the deadline for proposals until Dec. 22, and is planning on spending up to $200,000.
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LOL
My point is that when I had staff on the road I made sure that they had basic emergency kits in their cars.
I am not sure why this is so unusual.
No kidding. Where I work, we have a kit at/near every doorway. No matter where I am in the plant, I am within 50’ of an emergency kit.
The kits are used because the employees are on travel status while conducting business on bank property, not at their home office. Not that I think taxpayer money should be spent on them, but that's what they are for.
These kits would probably result in more casualties than having nothing at all. This being said, they should go “full retard” by putting lots of other “emergency” gear in them.
Atropine injectors, against nerve gas.
Lots of Oxycontin pills.
Neck tourniquet.
Sucking head wound cork.
Zombie anti-venom.
Condoms.
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