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2010-07-15 Home Front: Politix

Pentagon developing 'emergency plan' in absence of war funds

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Posted by newc 2010-07-15 11:28|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 ...No real story here, and no offense intended to the poster. There are always contingency plans for dealing with White House/Capitol Hill stupidity and have been at least since I joined the USAF in 1978 - because the services know that no matter how brain-dead the politicians get, they still have to do their job. Ships will sail less to train, planes will fly less to train, fewer people will move from one base to another, but the guys in the field will still have beans and bullets.

A bit oversimplified, but you get the point.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2010-07-15 12:40|| 2010-07-15 12:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Mike, I was going to post about a story of how NASA was going to ask the Russians for plutonium since the US hasn't produced any in a bit and is running out. I was going to toss in that we not only can't fly rockets any more but use Russian and Indian rockets, but now have to rely on other countries for power supplies. Would that have been news worthy?

Posted by miscellaenous 2010-07-15 13:17|| 2010-07-15 13:17|| Front Page Top

#3 I remember the 70s as well. Congress failed to pass the budget and substituted a continuing resolution for two months running, but always after payday. The command made provision to feed the dependents in the mess halls in Europe because there was no way to buy food without bouncing a check. Finally, in the third month Congress got around to making the rest of the year's funding one single continuing resolution. No need to guess which party ran Congress in that year.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-07-15 13:20|| 2010-07-15 13:20|| Front Page Top

#4 That wouldn't be another disaster administration that began with a, "C," would it?

Posted by miscellaenous 2010-07-15 13:22|| 2010-07-15 13:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Would that have been news worthy?

It isn't War on Terror, nor affecting it, miscellaneous, so therefore I, personally, would not have published it. I hope that helps.

Mike, thank you very much for the background. That helps keep things in perspective.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-07-15 16:32|| 2010-07-15 16:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Emergency Plan:

Send in the seventh cavalry with promotional sponsor motorcade passing out Red Bull and Monster energy drinks. Who needs money when you can run a military on taurine, ginseng, caffeine and a prayer? If the troops get dirty and cranky, just remind them that folks used to fight with no shoes here in the old U.S. of A.

Posted by Cloud Banks 2010-07-15 19:27|| 2010-07-15 19:27|| Front Page Top

#7 ...just remind them that folks used to fight with no shoes here in the old U.S. of A.

Yes, fortunately, we had a leader with the stature of George Washington, otherwise it would not have ended very pretty.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-07-15 20:20|| 2010-07-15 20:20|| Front Page Top

#8 The reason I brougth it up is that we have lost our ability to have a presense in space, let alone explore. The US has to rely on the Russians and India for getting satellites in space and maintaining the station. Instead we set NASA to make Muslims feel good about themselves. We also are letting China take over manned space exploration and I can guarantee they won't be nice and use it for humanitarian goals except as PR.

Then I caught the story about about NASA not having enough plutonium to create a power source for the Mar's explorer. They have to go to Russia for it and it'd take 5 years if they started up production now. What does this mean about our nuclear arsenal that needs constant maintenance? Due to the current regime's policies, they've squarely kicked the US in the derriere when it comes to defense or self reliance.

Posted by miscellaneous 2010-07-15 20:28|| 2010-07-15 20:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Why in phuck aren't we producing our own plutonium? What the phuck cheese? What a bunch of twatsickles running our gummint. Wastrel ding dongs.

Upp, my tourettes just subsided. Okay can someone pleae FIRE every last one of these tarded crap crab scratchers?

Posted by Cloud Banks 2010-07-15 22:01|| 2010-07-15 22:01|| Front Page Top

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