[Politics Poll]Who will win?

[gonaads]

I enjoy having a defense budget that spends billions on missles and the like to destroy a tent in the middle of a desert from 500 milles away. Seems like a fair trade for the $$$.

Goes with the 800 dollar toilet seats in the Pentagon... 800 dollars a piece.

 

[PseudoKiller]

Goes with the 800 dollar toilet seats in the Pentagon... 800 dollars a piece.

dont forget the 1200 dollar hammer... Ahh the glory of the Reagan years.

 

[ThePatriot]

I enjoy having a defense budget that spends billions on missles and the like to destroy a tent in the middle of a desert from 500 milles away. Seems like a fair trade for the $$$.

A short story, by ThePatriot...A long time ago, in a desert far, far away, some of said missles hit said tent. And a known and admitted terrorist was put on a leash. Anyone hear Dennis Miller goofing on Khaddafi? F'n hilarious!

 

[ThePatriot]

dont forget the 1200 dollar hammer... Ahh the glory of the Reagan years.

Prob like 2400 bucks now!

 

[PseudoKiller]

Prob like 2400 bucks now!

can you say Reagan-omics... I know you can.

 

[gonaads]

Defense Buget spending... kinda like "Military Intellegence"

 

[ThePatriot]

Defense Buget spending... kinda like "Military Intellegence"

OSHA has rules about NOT using those two words together...I'm outta here...

 

[gonaads]

Hahahahaha... Now that's funny.

 

[ThePatriot]

G'night gents!

 

[gonaads]

Nite nite.

 

[rotjong]

dont forget the 1200 dollar hammer... Ahh the glory of the Reagan years.

I'll never be able to prove this but I had a friend involved in the military and the government who once explained this to me. Whether it's true or not I'll never know. The story was this was no ordinary hammer and it involved electronics and dealt with density and strength of metals that it was struck upon. I can't remember how exactly it was worded because it was like 10 years ago.

Regardless of what exactly it did... it's laughable.

rotjong

 

[Son Goku]

Oh, ridiculous government spending... Reminds me of a 20/20 episode I saw about 1992 or so where they showed our tax dollars at work on such projects as studying the flow rate of ketchup and hiring people to sit around and sniff tea...

As to excessive prices...I've thought this myself, but can't prove it is so. Lets say for a moment that certain black/clandestine ops could take place. The issue of funding would come up. What would seem more inocuous then the cost of supplies? Now if they declare $800 for a toilet seat but spend much less...they have that left over money that could be funneled elsewhere. And if Congress is none the wiser...

In any case, I could just see it now...with the CIA (in this case) trying to put a line item in the budget for trying to put talcum powder in Fidel Castros boots to try and make his beard fall out. (This was one thing discovered during the Church committee in the 1970s.) The argument was that without his beard, he'd be a less appealing leader to the locals...