States Put at Risk from Bush Rip-off

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States Put at Risk from Bush Rip-off
Posted by Trish | Apr. 10, 2007, 8:54 am

How is the Bush government providing equipment for its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan? Why, stealing it from the states of course.
What I want to know is where the billions of dollars of emergency appropriations for “the troops” have gone.

Florida has about 600 to 700 soldiers in Iraq. Members were sent overseas with their equipment, but when they come back, the gear often stays in the war zones.

The Florida Guard was down 500 Humvees and 600 trucks, short 4,000 pairs of night vision goggle and needed 30 more wreckers, spokesman Lt. Col. Ron Tittle said…

The Florida National Guard has only 53 percent of the dual-use equipment it once had for responding to a storm or domestic disturbance, a recent analysis by the Government Accountability Office found. Texas, California and Louisiana also have about half of their dual-use equipment available to non-deployed Army National Guard forces.

In light of the pilfering, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) is worried about the Guard’s ability to respond to stateside disasters.

“Problems from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have stretched the Florida National Guard further than ever before, leaving it without all the resources it should have for responding to a domestic crisis,” Nelson said. “Hurricane season is coming fast and we need to make sure the Guard has what it needs.”

The Guard is being a good soldier and saying it will be O.K.

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They already have a military budget of three quarters of a TRILLION dollars per year OF OUR TAXES. You'd think that would be enough to make bush's buddies rich enough! But they're taking our states' assets, as well.

The military industrial complex in this country needs to be brought under control. Our roads, schools, law enforcement, and other infrastructure needs are crumbling while these assholes plunder the hard-earned money that we all contribute.

:kick::kick::kick: & Rec.

And, of course, bring the troops home now from Iraq.