Homeland Security Has Purchased 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks
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Homeland Security Has Purchased 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks
Obviously, the United States government is quickly gearing up its firepower and other equipment to deal with average Americans. You don't need this kind of equipment against the occasional lone nut. Keep in mind that DHS has also recently stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets. That's enough to put about a million bullets into every serious nut job that has popped up in the country over the last 100 years.
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/03/homeland-security-has-purchased-2700.html
Obviously, the United States government is quickly gearing up its firepower and other equipment to deal with average Americans. You don't need this kind of equipment against the occasional lone nut. Keep in mind that DHS has also recently stockpiled more than 1.6 billion bullets. That's enough to put about a million bullets into every serious nut job that has popped up in the country over the last 100 years.
http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/03/homeland-security-has-purchased-2700.html
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Look at the bright side... before the spending cuts, the order was for 3,000 Light Armoured Vehicles.
See? 300 less big ass trucks to come rolling up your driveway.
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You're welcome.
Hail, Hail!!!
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I'm guessing this will the future replacement for the bullshit Hummers we see the douchebags driving today.
Okay... now THIS... THIS is a fucking TANK:
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Call me when the TSA buys 2,700 of these.
Hail, Hail!!!
There is NO mention of "tanks"
Stop trying to be your own version of Foxnews by putting your own spin on the truth. :nono:
Direct from the link you posted....
it was that or leave them in Iraq and Afghanistan for the taliban and al qaeda
But thanks for trying :fp:
Hell yeah! A chicken in every pot, a tank in every garage!
Easier to fend off the blue helmets when they come to take your guns
You could drive this,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDoRmT0iRic
:fp:
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
Think Roger Daltry:
sh-sh-sh-shakin' all ooooooo-ver!
If I opened it now would you not understand?
I dont know Gimmie, i mean why are we spending money on this in a recession? there has to be a reason for it.
Kind of scary, not that i was planning on resisting.
it is simple ideological logic i guess.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I don't know if civilian versions are yet available. I think there is a backlog to get them to the troops. And I imagine they will be around $300K when they are available.
Made proudly in Oshkosh, WI.
You make a GREAT point.
The thing is... these 'Tanks' are manufactured here... in the good ol' U.S. of A. The people bitching about jobs, jobs, jobs... are the SAME ones complaining about DHS procurement of hardware... that is not really needed... just to keep the job count up. You can't have it both ways.
Government spending creates jobs to private sector corporations. That is how the C-130 kept its production line going for all of those years... buying C-130s for Coast Guard and Parks Services and all sorts of departments to keep aerospace workers in Murrietta, GA. employed through the 1990s. The production line dropped to something ridiculuos, like 2 per year. Turns out... it was a good thing because the Bush era wars created a demand for C-130s and the line pick up the pace.
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I know... i don't like the fact that we need to keep the production line of mine resistant vehicles going... but, if you know anything about heavy manufacturing... once that line shuts down... it is pretty much gone because it is WAY too expensive to private companies to fire it back up.
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Also... those of us in the machinery that is the Military-Industrial Complex call Aerospace, 'Well Fared For The Working'.
Hail, Hail!!!