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"Washington D.C. - Imagine. If you were to spend a dollar per second for every minute of every hour of every day, it would take almost 32 years to spend a billion dollars.
"Now imagine spending $1.7 billion and 10 years to develop a new fighting vehicle, only to scrape it all in the end when it is discovered that the new vehicle doesn't even work. Welcome to the wonderful world of the Pentagon.
"And for a kicker, how about we give the contractor responsible for developing this new dysfunctional fighting vehicle, in this case General Dynamics, an $80 million bonus. According to a recent report in the Washington Post, the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle breaks down an average of once every 4-1/2 hours, leaks and sometimes veers off course.
"And now for the kicker in the ass, our very own favorite former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has his hand up to the elbow in the cookie jar as well, bringing in a cool $11 million when his company was sold to General Dynamics in 1999. Anybody here feel like screaming?
From What They Meant To Say
SIRATYST (Stuff I Read and Thought You Should Too) -- “To ravage, to slaughter, to usurp under false titles, they call empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace.” (Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, Agricola 30-31)"
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