tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post8426712932922348414..comments2024-03-18T17:01:07.165-07:00Comments on The Provocateur: GITMO to Illinois?mike volpehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02999118519606254362noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-20479182968220983342009-11-16T08:03:57.363-08:002009-11-16T08:03:57.363-08:00Oh, and let's not forget Dick Durbin, who call...Oh, and let's not forget Dick Durbin, who called our guards Nazis.<br /><br />He'll be pulling a pile of cash in to use for favors.<br /><br />Words fail me. Our economy is tanking and The WON can fly all over the world, and then hand money out like there's plenty of it.xformedhttp://www.chaoticsynapticactivity.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3098264341625381422.post-53351530839740968462009-11-16T08:00:38.279-08:002009-11-16T08:00:38.279-08:00Oh, it shall pump $1B, that's not a problem......Oh, it shall pump $1B, that's not a problem...just left over change to the $787B...but I surmise it will be stripped from the DoD budget, using the rationale that they were combatants....just long enough to take the money from some defense spending requirements. National defense money most likely will be used and we shall suffer the loss of that money as it's converted to pork and political payoffs. And you can count on it getting spent to make roads, bridges, parks, etc, just like John Murtha builds airports in the middle of the back country of PA for he and a few of his constituent's use.<br /><br />Now, to be fair, the money used to keep GTMO open could be moved for this, it already being in the budget, now that I think about it, but when it's being spent in Cuba, it sure can't buy votes in the IL counties. In any case, it will be pork-ified.<br /><br />DoJ, who made this decision, I'm sure didn't have to do a zero-sum calculation on their money.<br /><br />I'm sure a great investigative blogger might want to hunt this dog down and expose the funding behind the decision. It would make a good story. Maybe even track the expenditures as time goes on. Great serial piece in the making, a forensic look at how Federal Funds are moved with a straight faced speech, for a completely political agenda.<br /><br />To be completely snarky, DoJ will need all their budget to hunt down domestic terrorists, so long as they are the right type.<br /><br />To be serious, I'm sure this is a planned move to make sure lots of money flows to the Chicago political machine, and, I'll predict, will be mis-used, just as Corp of Engineer money sent to New Orleans didn't get used for the legally mandated levee re-/building projects, but for other such purposes as the "local" deemed more important.<br /><br />When I worked in the federal Government, that would have meant a one way trip to federal Prison for personally reprogramming money, despite what Congress said, but then I was not a politician with my hand out for political gain and friends in high places, I just was defending The Constitution.xformedhttp://www.chaoticsynapticactivity.comnoreply@blogger.com