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Pentagon belt tightening!!

littlejoe

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WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The spending cuts mandated by the sequester may hamper the United States’s ability to invade countries for absolutely no reason, a Pentagon spokesman warned today.

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The Pentagon made this gloomy assessment amid widespread fears that the nation’s ability to wage totally optional wars based on bogus pretexts may be in peril.


“Historically, the United States has stood ready and able to throw billions of dollars at a military campaign with no clear rationale or well-defined objective,” said spokesman Harland Dorrinson. “Our capacity to wage war willy-nilly is now in jeopardy.”

In the past, Mr. Dorrinson said, the Pentagon has had the resources to fight three meaningless and completely random wars at any given time, “but now in our planning meetings we are cutting that number back to two.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R—S.C.) agreed about the catastrophic effects of the Pentagon cuts, telling reporters, “The ability of the United States to project its military power in an arbitrary and totally capricious way must never be compromised.”

The cuts are already being felt in a tangible way at the Pentagon, which today cancelled an order for a nine-thousand-dollar pen.


Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/03/pentagon-cuts-could-hamper-ability-to-invade-countries-for-no-reason.html#ixzz2MXaGtdqu
 

TexasBred

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Where are Bill Gates and Warren Buffet when they could really help?? Gates net worth 65 billion...Buffet....50 Billion....take care of the cuts and have billions left over.
 

littlejoe

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Mike said:
Buffet is too busy raking in cash from the XL pipeline postponement. :roll:

I was in Calgary last week, hanging out with oil patch buddys.

They say 3.19 gas equates to about 110$ oil--and oil has been hanging closer to 90.

They said west texas intermediate is discounted to Brent---and that their oil is discounted about 25% to wti--

They blame their large discount on U.S. pipeline holdups---but don't blame the U.S. as Canada can't even get a pipeline to their own coast, due to greenies and tribal bands.

If interested, 321energy.com is good energy site.
 
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