Die alte Sau whining about Whiteman Air Force Base

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9473370

Oh my.

proud2BlibKansan  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-04-10 06:01 AM
Die alte Sau ANNE, #19 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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Skelton's Loss Has Some Worried About Future of Whiteman AFB

WARRENSBURG, MO — The election is over, and now reality is setting in Missouri's Fourth Congressional District, where 17-term Democratic congressman Ike Skelton was defeated by Republican Vicky Hartzler. Now, some residents are worried that Skelton's defeat means the end to support for the military bases that make up such a large part of the district's economy.

With little military experience, Hartzler, a former state lawmaker who had been out of politics for a decade, has big shoes to fill. Not only had Ike Skelton held the 4th congressional district seat for 34 years, he was also the top man in the U.S. House Armed Services Committee, and was instrumental in bringing the B-2 Stealth bomber to Whiteman Air Force Base.

"It's huge, to the whole area," said Tammy Long, president of the Warrensburg Chamber of Commerce. "It's like a $6 billion industry they put out every year that goes back into the state of Missouri."

If it's lost, Long says it would truly hurt the whole state's economy.

"Any mission can go anywhere," said Long. "Everybody would love to have the B-2 in their backyard, and everybody would love to have the economy it brings with them."

http://www.fox4kc.com/news/wdaf-story-skelton-hartzler-...

FarPoint (432 posts)      Thu Nov-04-10 06:24 AM
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1. I hope they loose the base...

Republicans need no economical support....free enterprise I say.......let them eat cake.

proud2BlibKansan  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-04-10 06:25 AM
Die alte Sau ANNE, #19 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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2. I don't

It would devastate a huge portion of MO.

FarPoint (432 posts)      Thu Nov-04-10 07:18 AM
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9. Well this may be the learning curve for voters and non voters who feed the hand that beats and robs them.

Telly Savalas (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-04-10 07:25 AM
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11. So you advocate loyal Democrats who live in that area losing their jobs.

How is that not being an asshole?

kooljerk666 (52 posts)      Thu Nov-04-10 06:39 AM
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5. Good Bye to bad rubbish..........

he was a member of the "family" a cabal of xtian freaks.

shutdown 80 percent of the DOD and create a real jobs & tax cuts program.

military spending is a waste & self reliant GOPer's can get off the federal teet.

BTW i am in PA & all 4 of the guys I voted for lost (all Dem's).

Good for the perceptive voters of the Keystone state.

LWolf  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-04-10 08:32 AM
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15. Where will the base go if they set it loose?

ingac70  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-04-10 06:29 AM
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3. Wouldn't that be a laugh?

proud2BlibKansan  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-04-10 07:17 AM
Die alte Sau ANNE, #19 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
Response to Reply #3

7. No

There are good Dems in that district too.

babylonsister  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-04-10 06:30 AM
THE BABBLING SISTER PRIMITIVE
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4. This is the first I'd heard he lost. Wow.

proud2BlibKansan  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-04-10 07:17 AM
Die alte Sau ANNE, #19 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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8. It's a mind blower

MadHound (1000+ posts)      Thu Nov-04-10 08:19 AM
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13. I doubt that is going to happen, 

Unless Obama undertakes a base cutting program like Clinton did. But outside of that, it's a pain to up and move a specific group from one military base to another, especially a large group like the B-2.

Loki  (1000+ posts)        Thu Nov-04-10 09:36 AM
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16. I'm a born and raised Missourian now in Texas for 10 years and I've been struggling with my feelings since Bush wasn't elected. I think the people in Missouri who elected a Repuke to represent that district (even tho I think Ike Skelton was a blue dog that needed to go a long time ago) will have to deal with the consequences of their vote.

I'm sad in my heart that my great state that produced Harry Truman is voting like Oklahoma, Kentucky and Texas. Maybe losing Whiteman AFB will bring them to their senses, I thought that having Bond and Blunt as Senator and Governor would make people wake up, but it's going to take a tsunami of hard, hard times to make people realize just what a pox the Republican Party is to their welfare and our country.

[TheSarge]

Hey there's plenty of room at Dyess AFB in Abilene if Missouri doesn't want Whiteman AFB anymore.

[true_blood]

kooljerk666 (52 posts)      Thu Nov-04-10 06:39 AM
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5. Good Bye to bad rubbish..........he was a member of the "family" a cabal of xtian freaks. shutdown 80 percent of the DOD and create a real jobs & tax cuts program. military spending is a waste & self reliant GOPer's can get off the federal teet.
BTW i am in PA & all 4 of the guys I voted for lost (all Dem's).

Stupidity is running rampant over there for sure. Shut down the DOD?!
I had to read that twice to make sure I was reading correctly.

[BattleHymn]

Carnahan, rejected. (14 point margin)

Montee (incumbent auditor), out.

Skelton (MO-4), out.

17 seats flipped to red in the house. (will be 57 Dems, 105 Republicans)

3 seats flipped to red in the senate. (will be 8 Dems, 26 Republicans)

I suggest you DUmmies still hanging out in my backyard pack your damn bags, and get the hell out of MO.   

[franksolich]

Stupidity is running rampant over there for sure. Shut down the DOD?!

I had to read that twice to make sure I was reading correctly.

The primitives' brain-cells are still fossilized back to 1969 and before.

Up until 1969, the military-related budget had always been the largest part of the federal budget.

At times, it was 90% and more, of the federal budget.

(Note to the sensitive lad, the piano-playing primitive, in his pursuit of knowledge about America during the 1930s: when Franklin Roosevelt first took office in March 1933, the dominant part of the then-federal budget was for.....veterans' pensions.)

Beginning in 1970, under the (R) Richard Nixon, military-related spending first became a minority of the federal budget, and it's been decreasing since then, until on the scale of things as they are now, the defense budget is petty cash.

But the primitives, with their fossilized brain-cells, still think it's the way it was before 1969.

However, the defense budget CAN be cut.

Bela Pelosi's personal airplane is part of the defense budget.

That's a good place to cut.

[true_blood]

But the primitives, with their fossilized brain-cells, still think it's the way it was before 1969. However, the defense budget CAN be cut. Bela Pelosi's personal airplane is part of the defense budget.
That's a good place to cut.

That's an excellent place to start. No more free plane rides for Nazi Pelosi and her family.