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Trump is Degrading Military Readiness Around the Globe to fund his Wall

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$26 million for security improvements at Kaneohe Bay? Gone.

$17 million for a fire/crash rescue station at Tyndall AFB? Fuggedaboudit.

$5.2 million for weapons maintenance at the Anniston Army Depot? See ya.

$40 million for an information systems facility at White Sands? Gonzo.

$30 million for a readiness center in Puerto Rico? Buh-bye...

These are just a few of the scores of military projects that were shitcanned or raided to fund the Idiot's überfence. The whole list can be found here.

See what examples you can find! It's fun for the whole family! :D

 

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12 minutes ago, TheSanDiegan said:

$26 million for security improvements at Kaneohe Bay? Gone.

$17 million for a fire/crash rescue station at Tyndall AFB? Fuggedaboudit.

$5.2 million for weapons maintenance at the Anniston Army Depot? See ya.

$40 million for an information systems facility at White Sands? Gonzo.

$30 million for a readiness center in Puerto Rico? Buh-bye...

These are just a few of the scores of military projects that were raided to fund the Idiot's überfence. The whole list can be found here.

See what examples you can find! It's fun for the whole family! :D

 

Just think of all the resources the Chinese wasted on the Great Wall. 

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6 minutes ago, soupslam1 said:

Just think of all the resources the Chinese wasted on the Great Wall. 

Without the wall, whatever will we do what with the threat of all those Mongol horsemen on the Sonoran steppes?

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27 minutes ago, soupslam1 said:

Just think of all the resources the Chinese wasted on the Great Wall. 

Ineffective as a practical barrier, symbolically powerful for the legitimacy of the state, built at great cost so foreigners could have something to do 1,000 years later when they visited. Totally worth it.

Planning is an exercise of power, and in a modern state much real power is suffused with boredom. The agents of planning are usually boring; the planning process is boring; the implementation of plans is always boring. In a democracy boredom works for bureaucracies and corporations as smell works for skunk. It keeps danger away. Power does not have to be exercised behind the scenes. It can be open. The audience is asleep. The modern world is forged amidst our inattention.

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4 minutes ago, smltwnrckr said:

Ineffective as a practical barrier, symbolically powerful for the legitimacy of the state, built at great cost so foreigners could have something to do 1,000 years later when they visited. Totally worth it.

Hadrians wall was pretty tits.  Stopped the economic migrants right in their tracks!!  I know, I know.  Picts or it didn't happen.

See what I did there?

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2 minutes ago, halfmanhalfbronco said:

Hadrians wall was pretty tits.  Stopped the economic migrants right in their tracks!!  I know, I know.  Picts or it didn't happen.

See what I did there?

You don't have to go very far from there to find a hard border that wasn't too great, and the removal of which has led to peace thus far.  

 

Planning is an exercise of power, and in a modern state much real power is suffused with boredom. The agents of planning are usually boring; the planning process is boring; the implementation of plans is always boring. In a democracy boredom works for bureaucracies and corporations as smell works for skunk. It keeps danger away. Power does not have to be exercised behind the scenes. It can be open. The audience is asleep. The modern world is forged amidst our inattention.

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Just now, halfmanhalfbronco said:

It had some lit art.

True dat. 

Planning is an exercise of power, and in a modern state much real power is suffused with boredom. The agents of planning are usually boring; the planning process is boring; the implementation of plans is always boring. In a democracy boredom works for bureaucracies and corporations as smell works for skunk. It keeps danger away. Power does not have to be exercised behind the scenes. It can be open. The audience is asleep. The modern world is forged amidst our inattention.

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Planning is an exercise of power, and in a modern state much real power is suffused with boredom. The agents of planning are usually boring; the planning process is boring; the implementation of plans is always boring. In a democracy boredom works for bureaucracies and corporations as smell works for skunk. It keeps danger away. Power does not have to be exercised behind the scenes. It can be open. The audience is asleep. The modern world is forged amidst our inattention.

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This pretends that Trump is the only one who has been degrading readiness standards. Politicians have been playing these games at the expense of the military for a long time. The downside for the military is that they know that once a democrat is elected to the Oval Office, they can only expect more spending cuts and a reduction in programs across the board.

Look at the positive side, at least we got a budget this year instead of having another continuing resolution.

It would be nice if our elected representatives could actually find a way to cooperate and be productive, but I gave up any hope of that happening long ago. In the meantime, let's sit back and enjoy the government that we deserve...

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5 minutes ago, Monty93 said:

This pretends that Trump is the only one who has been degrading readiness standards. Politicians have been playing these games at the expense of the military for a long time. The downside for the military is that they know that once a democrat is elected to the Oval Office, they can only expect more spending cuts and a reduction in programs across the board.

Look at the positive side, at least we got a budget this year instead of having another continuing resolution.

It would be nice if our elected representatives could actually find a way to cooperate and be productive, but I gave up any hope of that happening long ago. In the meantime, let's sit back and enjoy the government that we deserve...

No, it does not. He is directly raiding funds that were already allocated for infrastructure and readiness projects to fund a purely political project. Please cite a precedent in recent American history?

Regarding the lack of bipartisanship, it's a difficult goal to attain when gerrymandering has created enclaves by which sitting incumbents are virtually guaranteed reelection. :shrug:

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For almost two decades, families at Fort Campbell, the sprawling Army base along the Kentucky-Tennessee border, have borne the brunt of the country’s war efforts as a steady clip of troops with the 101st Airborne Division and from Special Operations units deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq.

This week, the families discovered that they would not get the new middle school they were expecting so that President Trump could build his border wall. The school is on the list of 127 projects, touching nearly every facet of American military life, that will be suspended to shift $3.6 billion to the wall.

The Pentagon’s decision to divert $62.6 million from the construction of Fort Campbell’s middle school means that 552 students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades will continue to cram themselves in, 30 to a classroom in some cases, at the base’s aging Mahaffey Middle School. Teachers at Mahaffey will continue to use mobile carts to store their books, lesson plans and homework assignments because there is not enough classroom space. Students stuffed into makeshift classrooms-within-classrooms will continue to strain to figure out which lesson to listen to and which one to filter out.

And since the cafeteria at Mahaffey is not big enough to seat everyone at lunchtime, some students will continue to eat in the school library.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/us/trump-border-wall-military-families.html

There you have it, folks.... wall > educating children who live on a military base.

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11 minutes ago, TheSanDiegan said:

No, it does not. He is directly raiding funds that were already allocated for infrastructure and readiness projects to fund a purely political project. Please cite a precedent in recent American history?

Regarding the lack of bipartisanship, it's a difficult goal to attain when gerrymandering has created enclaves by which sitting incumbents are virtually guaranteed reelection. :shrug:

He's "raiding" the funds because Congress is so dysfunctional that they wouldn't come to an agreement - whether for grandstanding reasons or otherwise. As you know, there is no precedent for the reallocation/raiding so we're in undiscovered territory - for better or worse. Similar cuts occurred under sequestration. Ironically, Congress could have approved some funding for the wall but decided they'd rather play games of political brinkmanship. And here we are. 

Gerrymandering isn't the cause of the problem.  The real problem is the willingness of the electorate from both sides to put up with, and reward, the extreme dramatics and vitriol. Politics have become dangerously polarized and this didn't just happen after November 8, 2016, it's been trending this way for years. So now we end up with extremist politicians who play to the masses. What you're describing is nothing more than the symptoms of the larger problem. The electorate is being gamed by the two sides to solidify their mutual power bases - and the political machines have fine-tuned the messaging.

I originally thought that this trend would reverse itself when we hit rock bottom, but evidently these folks brought jackhammers and continue to drill. :digging:

 

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Repairs at Camp Lejune due to last year's hurricane haven't even begun yet. The base HQ bldg along with the HQ bldg for the 2nd Marine Division still have blue tarps on their roofs. Barracks are in the same state as is much of family housing. Child care facilities all over DOD will deal with cuts, as will DOD schools. This President is a blithering idiot, as are his dumbass supporters. All these clowns screaming for the wall probably can't point to the border on a map. They have no clue what is really going on down here. The border areas are much safer than the majority of the shitholes his supporters live in.

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