Dave, i gave an example of the MIC or golden Triangle some time ago. Its a sliver of a truckload of logs but its true.
[h=2]Tuesday, May 7, 2013[/h][h=3]Chuck Spinney had it right.[/h]
Yesterday the Congressional/Senatorial Military Industrial Complex announced the plans to add ten more ships to the Navy's fleet over the next four years to help keep fighting the good fight on behalf of the "global force for good ". The DOD will commission someone to build these ships and is currently "vetting" the potential shipbuilders. The odds on favorite to "win the bid" is Bath Iron Works out of Maine, a subsidiary of General Dynamics. But I thought it was Mittens Romney that was going to be the new savior for the Navy and the Military Industrial Congressional Complex?
General Dynamics, is one of the largest defense contractors in the world. This is the same General Dynamics that was in the news about a month ago for an "accounting glitch" involving 900 million dollars worth of Stryker replacement parts. This doesnt include the no-bid $1.5 billion Stryker maintenance contract the Army has with General Dynamics that has the Army over-spending by some 300+ million dollars.
But, hey, welcome to the Iron Triangle.
Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/03/...ral-finds-900.html#.UYgBZ8prjfa#storylink=cpy
This 2:27 minute local Bath, Maine news report, back from February of this year, gives a great example of how the Iron Triangle works and it pertains to this topic. Here you have both Senators, a Republican (Susan Collins) and Independent (Angus King) from the state of Maine, "working hand in glove" to get congress to pass a new defense budget. Here you also have union leadership talking about preserving jobs, hoping for a new defense budget. You have the president of BIW, proclaiming: "if nothing changes, it could lead to more job layoffs in the years ahead".
What you have here is organized labor and industry in unison with elected bureaucrats, all with one voice. That voice is clearly aimed at congress. Could it be because of the 5000+ jobs at stake in their districts/town? Or could it be all of them having their pockets lined with the billions at stake with the Department of Defense? General Dyanmics will surly profit from building ten new destroyers. Organized labor gets to keep their scalps. Last but not least, Susan Collins gets to keep her whore-master, General Dynamic, fat and happy, for ther investment into her campaign.
Here is a little something about Susan Collins we should know first:
Voted NO on investigating contract awards in Iraq & Afghanistan. (Nov 2005)
Interesting? You would assume someone who is on both Senate committees of Appropriations and Armed Forces, would want some type of transparency into contract/rewards, wouldn't you? Now, here are some of her earmarks...
| $20,000,000 | High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle Repair |
| $6,000,000 | General Dynamics/Saco Defense: MK47 Mod 0 Advanced Lightweight Grenade Launcher |
$3,200,000 General Dynamics/Saco Defense (Collins) General Dynamics Armaments and Technical Products (Leahy, Snowe): Lightweight Caliber .50 Machine Gun
| Contributor | Total | Indivs | PACs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Dynamics | $89,750 | $48,250 | $41,500 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Raytheon Co | $65,801 | $16,801 | $49,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blue Cross/Blue Shield | $52,000 | $3,000 | $49,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Marriott International | $51,500 | $36,500 | $15,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| National Assn of Postmasters | $49,000 | $0 | $49,000 |
"Its embarrassing..... ah... that or government has put people in this position because of the inability of people to work together."
Its embarrassing we have put a defense contractor in this position because the Iron Triangle's red tape isn't moving fast enough? Insert hilarious laughter here. I'm not pointing out anything that isn't obvious. Sure, we have corruption. We all know that but this isn't corruption as much as it is everyday business in the US of A. Where common sense and the statesmen has been assassinated and replaced by pimps with out of touch - bloated budgets (read Defense) who are running nothing more than a jobs program for the public while sanctioning nothing short of mercenary work to its soldiers. All the while the "elected" officials play the part of Mary Magdalan... nothing but a whore hiding behind an illusion.
Posted by Joe Fletcher at 4:36 PM
Suggests that there are times when Alex Jones is NOT Drunk or Stoned. Fascinating. I would not have though this.
Massively +EV Strategy: Getting those with Intel We'd Benefit from Knowing, Drunk & Stoned.
I'd like to see John McCain undergo this procedure. I wanna know what his "arrangement" with The Saudi Royal Family has entailed. And what JMc knows, of what The Saud Family would prefer we not find out.
Interesting Thread. Thanks. :toast:
Massively +EV Strategy: Getting those with Intel We'd Benefit from Knowing, Drunk & Stoned.
I'd like to see John McCain undergo this procedure. I wanna know what his "arrangement" with The Saudi Royal Family has entailed. And what JMc knows, of what The Saud Family would prefer we not find out.
Interesting Thread. Thanks. :toast:
These dudes get HIGH AF and start speaking truth. Breaking out clips from JFK speechs, the iconic Eisenhowser speech, validating Trumps immigration with videos of Obama Clinton saying same shit I love it. ROFLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
17:38 thru 17:48:
We're thrown Out of The Bar.
86'd.
Deservedly So.
