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n2doc

(47,953 posts) Wed Oct 2, 2013, 09:09 AM Oct 2013

5.5 billion awarded in defense contracts monday

Gotta get that pork out before the shutdown!
http://www.defense.gov/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=5144

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5.5 billion awarded in defense contracts monday (Original Post) n2doc Oct 2013 OP

Corporate welfare recipients have lawyers and lobbyists jsr Oct 2013 #1

Whaat? abelenkpe Oct 2013 #2

Corporate welfare at its finest! City Lights Oct 2013 #3

And the best part is secrecy now shrouds what the DoD is doing unhappycamper Oct 2013 #4

If you look at where the companies are, the pork is very much bi-partisan n/t Lurks Often Oct 2013 #5

Is there a better word for Disgusting? KoKo Oct 2013 #6

Happens each year, last minute award of expiring FY funds bigbrother05 Oct 2013 #7

If we can't afford to educate our children, to heal our sick or care for our elderly ... Scuba Oct 2013 #8

jsr

(7,712 posts)

1. Corporate welfare recipients have lawyers and lobbyists

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Oct 2, 2013, 09:14 AM

Oct 2013

unlike regular people.

abelenkpe

(9,933 posts)

2. Whaat?

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Oct 2, 2013, 09:36 AM

Oct 2013

This should be bigger news.

Cutting funds for the poor, sick and elderly while feeding defense contractors?!

City Lights

(25,171 posts)

3. Corporate welfare at its finest!

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Oct 2, 2013, 09:37 AM

Oct 2013

unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)

4. And the best part is secrecy now shrouds what the DoD is doing

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Oct 2, 2013, 09:51 AM

Oct 2013

http://www.defensenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013310010031

The Pentagon will do “one big announcement” of the contracts awarded during this period when the shutdown ends, Christensen wrote.

Lurks Often

(5,455 posts)

5. If you look at where the companies are, the pork is very much bi-partisan n/t

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Oct 2, 2013, 09:52 AM

Oct 2013

KoKo

(84,711 posts)

6. Is there a better word for Disgusting?

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Wed Oct 2, 2013, 10:32 AM

Oct 2013

It seems disgusting doesn't go far enough these days.

bigbrother05

(5,995 posts)

7. Happens each year, last minute award of expiring FY funds

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Wed Oct 2, 2013, 04:30 PM

Oct 2013

Very much business as usual in the DoD.

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

8. If we can't afford to educate our children, to heal our sick or care for our elderly ...