Pentagon slammed for turning $1 billion ‘coronavirus fund’ into more military-industrial pork

[danielpalos]

Abolish our alleged wars on crime, drugs, and terror; tax cut economics should result in cutting that discretionary spending.

Your welfare is discretionary.

Warfare is discretionary.

 

[harmonica]

Abolish our, Big Government, nanny-State policies! Alleged wars on crime, drugs, and terror are nowhere authorized in our federal Constitution. Raise the minimum wage and solve simple poverty instead!

...the companies will just raise prices making a wage hike worthless
...a lot of poverty is from people being stupid- can't fix that

 

[danielpalos]

Abolish our, Big Government, nanny-State policies! Alleged wars on crime, drugs, and terror are nowhere authorized in our federal Constitution. Raise the minimum wage and solve simple poverty instead!

...the companies will just raise prices making a wage hike worthless
...a lot of poverty is from people being stupid- can't fix that

Prices won't go up as much with any minimum wage raise; the dollar menu won't double even if the minimum wage does.

Why bother giving pay raises, otherwise.

 

[harmonica]

Abolish our, Big Government, nanny-State policies! Alleged wars on crime, drugs, and terror are nowhere authorized in our federal Constitution. Raise the minimum wage and solve simple poverty instead!

...the companies will just raise prices making a wage hike worthless
...a lot of poverty is from people being stupid- can't fix that

Prices won't go up as much with any minimum wage raise; the dollar menu won't double even if the minimum wage does.

Why bother giving pay raises, otherwise.

hahahhahahahaha--doesn't matter--the ''minimum wage'' people won't be able to afford it

 

[danielpalos]

Abolish our, Big Government, nanny-State policies! Alleged wars on crime, drugs, and terror are nowhere authorized in our federal Constitution. Raise the minimum wage and solve simple poverty instead!

...the companies will just raise prices making a wage hike worthless
...a lot of poverty is from people being stupid- can't fix that

Prices won't go up as much with any minimum wage raise; the dollar menu won't double even if the minimum wage does.

Why bother giving pay raises, otherwise.

hahahhahahahaha--doesn't matter--the ''minimum wage'' people won't be able to afford it

Sure they will. Your right wing position is just silly. Someone making the new higher minimum wage will be able to buy more Big Macs.

 

[Dayton3]

We should have a Special Counsel appointed to look into it.
Donald Rumsfeld maybe. ( the Tamiflu guy from Gilead Sci )
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One billion is a drop in-the-bucket. The War Department has wasted untold trillions over the decades. Their budget has become a slush fund for the ultra wealthy.

Prove it with links to evidence from an unbiased source.

 

[the other mike]

Prove it with links to evidence from an unbiased source.

Prove that war is a racket ? C'mon.

 

[Dayton3]

Prove it with links to evidence from an unbiased source.

Prove that war is a racket ? C'mon.

Let me guess. You're going to quote two time Medal of Honor winner Smedley Butler.

I remind you that being awarded the Medal of Honor does not imply any special knowledge of military logistics or procurement.

 

[the other mike]

Let me guess. You're going to quote two time Medal of Honor winner Smedley Butler.

I remind you that being awarded the Medal of Honor does not imply any special knowledge of military logistics or procurement.

There's no need to quote him as he's been proven right over and over and over.

 

[Dayton3]

Let me guess. You're going to quote two time Medal of Honor winner Smedley Butler.

I remind you that being awarded the Medal of Honor does not imply any special knowledge of military logistics or procurement.

There's no need to quote him as he's been proven right over and over and over.

Then why do we have so many fewer defense contractors now than we had in the past?

 

[gipper]

Prove it with links to evidence from an unbiased source.

Prove that war is a racket ? C'mon.

We should have a Special Counsel appointed to look into it.
Donald Rumsfeld maybe. ( the Tamiflu guy from Gilead Sci )
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One billion is a drop in-the-bucket. The War Department has wasted untold trillions over the decades. Their budget has become a slush fund for the ultra wealthy.

Prove it with links to evidence from an unbiased source.

Lol. Really? You can’t be real.
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[Mac-7]

It figures it'd be something like this...


The Pentagon has defended its decision to repurpose Covid-19 preparedness funds – meant for pandemic response – to prop up weapons contractors as House Democrats slammed its double-dipping.

While the Department of Defense received $1 billion in March's CARES Act stimulus bill specifically to "prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus," it ultimately diverted most of the windfall to defense contractors, the Washington Post revealed on Tuesday.

The pandemic response fund, created under the aegis of the Defense Production Act, was supposed to be used to produce N95 masks, gloves, and other PPE that was scarce at the time. Instead, it was doled out to mega-corporations like Rolls-Royce, GE Aviation, and ArcelorMittal, as well as to smaller firms making drone technology and a fabric manufacturer whose product is used to make army uniforms. The only thing most recipients had in common was that their work had no immediately apparent connection to coronavirus preparedness.

Worse, at least a third of the Pentagon contractors who benefited from the misappropriated pandemic response funds were essentially double-dipping, WaPo revealed, helping themselves to the critically-underfunded Paycheck Protection Program which so many American small businesses outside the defense sector have struggled to access.

Continued - Pentagon slammed for turning $1 billion ‘coronavirus fund’ into more military-industrial pork – but what did Congress expect?

So, libs want our soldiers to go into battle naked and without drones they need to kill the enemy with?

 

[danielpalos]

Prove it with links to evidence from an unbiased source.

Prove that war is a racket ? C'mon.

Our alleged wars on crime, drugs, and terror must be a racket and fake news with tax cut economics and that, capital vote of no confidence in those policies instead of more patriotic, wartime time tax rates.

 

[Dayton3]

Prove it with links to evidence from an unbiased source.

Prove that war is a racket ? C'mon.

Our alleged wars on crime, drugs, and terror must be a racket

Those are just figures of speech. Not real wars.

 

[Natural Citizen]

So, libs want our soldiers to go into battle naked and without drones they need to kill the enemy with?

How about a declaration of war so they actually have a legitimate enemy, first of all. You know...like the constitution states?

Then we can give beginner lessons on the difference between military spending and defense spending.

 

[the other mike]

Prove it with links to evidence from an unbiased source.

Prove that war is a racket ? C'mon.

Our alleged wars on crime, drugs, and terror must be a racket

Those are just figures of speech. Not real wars.

The 'war' on drugs may be a catchphrase, but even as a metaphor it's still a real war. Ask someone who spent years of their lives locked up or seen family members die in varying scenarios.

Ask a Veteran who's marched through a poppy field 7000 miles from home.

 

[Dayton3]

So, libs want our soldiers to go into battle naked and without drones they need to kill the enemy with?

How about a declaration of war so they actually have a legitimate enemy, first of all. You know...like the constitution states?

Then we can give beginner lessons on the difference between military spending and defense spending.

Nations don't "declare war" any more.

 

[the other mike]

Nations don't "declare war" any more.

Only rock bands do.

 

[Mac-7]

How about a declaration of war so they actually have a legitimate enemy, first of all. You know...like the constitution states?

Then we can give beginner lessons on the difference between military spending and defense spending.

I wish the world were that simple, but its not

my point is when the soldiers get to battle for whatever reason I want them to be well equipped

 

[danielpalos]

Prove it with links to evidence from an unbiased source.

Prove that war is a racket ? C'mon.

Our alleged wars on crime, drugs, and terror must be a racket

Those are just figures of speech. Not real wars.

The 'war' on drugs may be a catchphrase, but even as a metaphor it's still a real war. Ask someone who spent years of their lives locked up or seen family members die in varying scenarios.

Ask a Veteran who's marched through a poppy field 7000 miles from home.
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Only lousy capitalists prefer that socialism on an international and national basis.

Better drugs at lower cost!