I'm for more gun control (Farah calls for disarming those attempting to monopolize armed force)

WND ^ | March 17, 2013 | Joseph Farah

[USAF80]

They are probably going to get refitted, some are returning to their original units here in the states. You see a lot of that these days if you are close to a depot. A lot of our equipment is getting torn up over in the desert.

[Travis McGee]

I’m glad our Marines had them for warfighting in Iraq and A-stan.

Not so much the DHS in America.

[Chode]

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[stevie_d_64]

When you do not have a budget passed in over 4 years, the normal oversight and “Bona Fide Need Rule” is difficult to apply to such an un-conventional process...

So to put to bed the nonsense that the republicans we have in Congress now are not playing ball with the budget that is submitted by the president, I am absolutely ok with the obstructionist position we are holding...

BUT!!!

That should not mean we should allow those very dsame republicans a pass, they should be watch every damn thing that is being procured, by these departments as if it was a normal process...

My opinion is they are once again dropping the ball and not following through these purchases...

Otherwise we would not be having conversations like this...

[stevie_d_64]

As you say...

“...the continued militarization of our law enforcement...”

What a sweet deal for some of these combat vets coming back, looking for work...Of course they would have to be properly vetted and indoctrinated to remove all sense of questioning the constitutionality of their potential duties...

They’ll be given plenty of opportunities to ride in parades and do other PR type work for now to get the peeps used to seeing them around...

Give them some high vis busts or other activities to prove and justify their existance, leaving the poor overworked and underpaid local law enforcement looking like second rate Barney Fife’s...

But...What do I know...hehehe

[Cheerio]

Budget or no budget, when the contractor submits an invoice to the Government that invoice has to have the funding citation on it and when the payment office of the DHS receives the invoice the bill has to be paid out of specific funding citation and it has to be traceable back to a CONGRESSIONAL APPRORPIATION. In years past one could actually find the line by line budget of all the various agencies and if you knew the coding you could find the ultimate source of the money. The Admin cannot spend one penny without a corresponding appropriation from the Congress. In an environment of CR after CR, you go back to the last line by line appropriation - that is why there are no “new starts” in an CR environment. Budgets and Appropriations are two very different animals - budget only provides policy guidance. Appropriation actually authorizes the spending, and without it Zero is shut down. That is why I constantly write on this forum that Boner and the boys are holding a Royal Flush, but are afraid to use it, remembering how Newt was pilloried for shutting down the Government.

[stevie_d_64]

That is correct...But in addition to the lack of congressional oversight, those funds that are being used are year end monies that need to be spent, or they are lost...As with any excess fundage...

This type of mentality needs to stop...To spend, just because you got money does not constitute good fiscal policy...

If some sort of incentive were to be available, instead of the “use it, or lose it” system, then we may be able to fix a lot of the feduciary malfeasance at all levels of government...

But that is a pipe dream...Along with the politicians needing to justify their existance, retain their power and position, no one wants to do anything to upset the perks that come with power, and the ability to spend money to make themselves look good to their constituencies is worse than what crack cocaine will do to anyone...

[CodeToad]

The dork second from left. THAT’S what we are supposed to be afraid of? Bring it on! What a gomer!

[Cheerio]

If some sort of incentive were to be available, instead of the “use it, or lose it” system, then we may be able to fix a lot of the fiduciary malfeasance at all levels of government... But that is a pipe dream...

And I never used to believe in term limits for Congress since "we the people" have a chance to throw the bums out of the House every two years.

But I have changed my mind seeing how they spend their entire two years working for reelection and not doing what we send them to the District of Corruption to do. FOR THESE TWO YEARS I THINK WE SENT THEM THERE TO STOP THE OBAMA WRECKING BALL.

But just like the budget and appropriation mess they have created, we will never ever have term limits because it will stifle their "CAREERS".

[stevie_d_64]

Well they become instant millionaires if they are able to complete one term of office, IIRC...Their retirement package after working only that two years is a sweet deal as far as I am concerned...

An old Precinct Chair friend of mine has successfully worked his way up to US Congressman (Randy Weber), and his balliwick is an A/C repairman, owned his own business, and now he has gotten into politics I guess in the right way...You gotta start somewhere I remember telling him a few years ago, he cut his teeth in the Texas Legislature, and look at him now...

He’s a solid conservative, but a junior to the wheeling and dealing in D.C., and he knows it...But he is made in the shade now...

I bet we could find 85 billion to cut if we could dive into the perks packages congresscritters get for their troubles...Most conservative rookies might give that stuff up if we pressed...But instead we have stupid stuff cut like the tours, and other WH functions because of the sequester Obama supported before he didn’t support it, or something stupid like that...

I still hold to the idea that we need to fire all of them and start over...Even Randy...He’d probably be one of the few that would say “Thanks You!!!”