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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: RobJohnson on March 10, 2013, 08:28:39 PM
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Just when you think it can’t get any crazier, the Washington politicians go another step higher on the lunacy scale.
With the automatic spending cuts, known as the sequester, cutting only two cents per dollar out of the bloated federal budget, a budget that’s grown 71 percent faster than inflation over the past two decades, the federal scaremongers are rushing around putting padlocks on control towers at the nation’s airports.
We’re supposed to think a measly two percent cut in spending, something most any business or household could handle if their spending was out of control and unsustainable, makes it impossible for the government to launch an aircraft carrier or operate control towers.
Still, if we’re lucky enough to avoid a crash landing, the treat we’ll see inside the airports is something new and special, a handsome conglomeration of sharp-dressed government employees, newly outfitted at taxpayers’ expense and ready to squeeze the legs of incoming passengers and snap a few naked photos.
Just two days before the automatic federal spending cuts took effect, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) announced it had awarded a $50 million one-year contract for new uniforms for airport screeners, clothes that will be manufactured partially in Mexico.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/14720-budget-cuts-not-for-50-million-contract-for-new-tsa-uniforms
At least they will look spiffy when they ignore my 2 1/2 inch blade on my pocket knife and confiscate my shampoo.
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http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/14720-budget-cuts-not-for-50-million-contract-for-new-tsa-uniforms
At least they will look spiffy when they ignore my 2 1/2 inch blade on my pocket knife and confiscate my shampoo.
Just another government bureaucracy, groping out of control.
Who the hell actually applies for a job with that outfit? I was wondering about that recently when I made several flights here and there.
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Just another government bureaucracy, groping out of control.
Who the hell actually applies for a job with that outfit? I was wondering about that recently when I made several flights here and there.
With high unemployment I guess any job is a good job.
Holy shit........they even get free socks!
Each of the TSA’s 50,000 agents will get a closet full of new clothes, including:
•3 long sleeve shirts
•3 short sleeve shirts
•2 pairs of trousers
•2 ties
•A belt
•A sweater
•A jacket
•Socks
http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/03/06/really-tsa-orders-50-million-in-new-uniforms-right-before-sequester-kicked-in/
The lucky company that was awarded the $50 million contract is VF Imagewear, owner of Lee Brand and Wrangler Hero. Nice stuff, sort of the look of a fake Montana cowboy.
:lmao: :lmao:
Of course these new uniforms will be partially made in Mexico.
The new uniforms will be "manufactured in the U.S. and Mexico" says the TSA, even though The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 specifically requires the TSA to purchase uniforms made in the United States. The federal bureaucrats got around the Made-in-America manufacturing requirement by saying Mexico couldn’t be excluded as a manufacturer because of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/14720-budget-cuts-not-for-50-million-contract-for-new-tsa-uniforms