Sunday, April 28, 2013

Abrams Tank Pushed By Congress Despite Army's Protests

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/28/abrams-tank-congress-army_n_3173717.html


Article Photoall you hear is the progressives want more money to spend we'll be giving them a blank check, while convieniently leaving outthat the final signiners of the check are who is spending our loot, the congress.
Clinton was right it takes a lot of brass to accuse others of what you are doing, or is it just the audacity of right wing arrgance?
 WASHINGTON -- Built to dominate the enemy in combat, the Army's hulking Abrams tank is proving equally hard to beat in a budget battle.
Lawmakers from both parties have devoted nearly half a billion dollars in taxpayer money over the past two years to build improved versions of the 70-ton Abrams.
ok but congress is a majority of republicans they signed off, not the Pres.
But senior Army officials have said repeatedly, "No thanks."
It's the inverse of the federal budget world these days, in which automatic spending cuts are leaving sought-after pet programs struggling or unpaid altogether. Republicans and Democrats for years have fought so bitterly that lawmaking in Washington ground to a near-halt.
Yet in the case of the Abrams tank, there's a bipartisan push to spend an extra $436 million on a weapon the experts explicitly say is not needed.
"If we had our choice, we would use that money in a different way," Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army's chief of staff, told The Associated Press this past week.
many different way, in many different states to many different Aericans. 
republicans view this as they do rape no means "yes c'mon do it". so who is really spending your tax money and who's zoomin' who?