Army says no to more tanks, but Congress insists

[rdean]

"When an institution as risk averse as the Defense Department says they have enough tanks, we can probably believe them," Kennedy said.

Congressional backers of the Abrams upgrades view the vast network of companies, many of them small businesses, that manufacture the tanks' materials and parts as a critical asset that has to be preserved. The money, they say, is a modest investment that will keep important tooling and manufacturing skills from being lost if the Abrams line were to be shut down.

Army says no to more tanks, but Congress insists | Fox News

Government keeping jobs going.

 

[Vandalshandle]

...broght to you by the military industrial complex, and your local poliititians, "The best you can buy!"

 

[fyrenza]

Actually, it was trying to NOT be brought to you by the military/industrial complex ~

it was POLITICIANS,
believing that THEY know more about what the military needs that the freakin' MILITARY PANEL of advisors.

Nice touch, trying to sneak that in, but I call bullspit.

 

[Vandalshandle]

Actually, it was trying to NOT be brought to you by the military/industrial complex ~

it was POLITICIANS,
believing that THEY know more about what the military needs that the freakin' MILITARY PANEL of advisors.

Nice touch, trying to sneak that in, but I call bullspit.

Sorry, pal, but the military industrial complex is , and always has been, in bed with the politicains. The politicians FUEL the military industrial complex. Do you think that the military and industrial complex do business together with tax money without politicians being involved? Just because Ike did not call it the "military, industral, politcal" complex does not exclude the enablers in congress from throwing your money at their pet constiuancy based factories...which is exactly what is going on with these tanks.

 

[whitehall]

The rant is based on a cherry picked sentence that a fat assed general was foolish enough to give to the A.P. "If we had the money we would use it in a different way". Doesn't the Army COS understand that he works for the civilian government and he doesn't get to put pressure on congress by talking to the media? It wasn't long ago when the long haired maggot infested press was spitting on generals. Now they use them to make left wing political statements.

 

[Vandalshandle]

The rant is based on a cherry picked sentence that a fat assed general was foolish enough to give to the A.P. "If we had the money we would use it in a different way". Doesn't the Army COS understand that he works for the civilian government and he doesn't get to put pressure on congress by talking to the media? It wasn't long ago when the long haired maggot infested press was spitting on generals. Now they use them to make left wing political statements.

It's all a left wing, liberal, commie plot....

 

[rdean]

The rant is based on a cherry picked sentence that a fat assed general was foolish enough to give to the A.P. "If we had the money we would use it in a different way". Doesn't the Army COS understand that he works for the civilian government and he doesn't get to put pressure on congress by talking to the media? It wasn't long ago when the long haired maggot infested press was spitting on generals. Now they use them to make left wing political statements.

It's all a left wing, liberal, commie plot....

Stupid military unknowingly led by crazy liberals. And other bizarre bullshit imaged by delusional right wingers.

 

[rdean]

A tank and a terrorist is like an elephant trying to catch a jackrabbit.

 

[Unkotare]

Is this a case of 'tanks, but no tanks'?

 

[Politico]

They need to keep it going at some level.

 

[whitehall]

The rant is based on a cherry picked sentence that a fat assed general was foolish enough to give to the A.P. "If we had the money we would use it in a different way". Doesn't the Army COS understand that he works for the civilian government and he doesn't get to put pressure on congress by talking to the media? It wasn't long ago when the long haired maggot infested press was spitting on generals. Now they use them to make left wing political statements.

It's all a left wing, liberal, commie plot....

Have you looked at the A.P. lately? You are closer to the truth than your poor attempt at sarcasm indicates.