Obama Admin Requests Huge Hurricane Relief Package ... To Buy Cars

[longknife]

The Lefties are gonna hate this, but Breightbart Big Government blog gives us this:

Every appropriations bill these days includes a large cash request for vehicles. That might have something to do with the fact that the government now owns General Motors. No government in history has bought more civilian vehicles than this one. From 2005 to 2011, the Department of Justice, which has a grand total of 114,873 positions, grew its number of vehicles by 12 percent to 40,111. That’s one vehicle for every 2.9 employees. The Department of Homeland Security now has 56,534 vehicles, a 48 percent jump over 2005, to serve 240,000 employees – one vehicle for every 4.2 employees. If you took those cars and lined them up end-to-end, they’d stretch for 308 miles.

Read the full piece @ Obama Admin Requests Huge Hurricane Relief Package ... To Buy Cars [plus some other interesting stuff]

 

[Oldguy]

Yes. Cars. They DO get damaged and destroyed, not only in floods but during the relief efforts.

So what? It ain't rocket science to figure that out, is it?

 

[Oldguy]

By the way, here's the whole document, not just Breitbart's cherry-picked spin on it:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/def..._7_2012_hurricane_sandy_funding_needs.pdf.pdf

Wanna pick it apart?

 

[longknife]

By the way, here's the whole document, not just Breitbart's cherry-picked spin on it:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/def..._7_2012_hurricane_sandy_funding_needs.pdf.pdf

Wanna pick it apart?

Thank you for the link. It DOES make some interesting reading. However, as usual, one has to dig deep to find some of the little goodies deep inside. As it is, I don't have the time to do much. Maybe someone else will.

 

[edthecynic]

The Lefties are gonna hate this, but Breightbart Big Government blog gives us this:

Every appropriations bill these days includes a large cash request for vehicles. That might have something to do with the fact that the government now owns General Motors. No government in history has bought more civilian vehicles than this one. From 2005 to 2011, the Department of Justice, which has a grand total of 114,873 positions, grew its number of vehicles by 12 percent to 40,111. That’s one vehicle for every 2.9 employees. The Department of Homeland Security now has 56,534 vehicles, a 48 percent jump over 2005, to serve 240,000 employees – one vehicle for every 4.2 employees. If you took those cars and lined them up end-to-end, they’d stretch for 308 miles.

Read the full piece @ Obama Admin Requests Huge Hurricane Relief Package ... To Buy Cars [plus some other interesting stuff]

Who was president 2005 to 2009? Who owned GM then?