The Pentagon just wasted $7 billion tax dollars. Ho-hum.

[Comrade Grumpy]

US Army to Scrap $7 Billion in Equipment in Afghanistan

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/20/193978665/u-s-army-to-scrap-7-billion-in-equipment-in-afghanistan

That would have bought a lot of food stamps or medical care or infrastructure improvements. I understand that Republicans are total hypocrites when it comes to all their deficit talk, but have any Democrats spoken out about this boondoggle?

I'm starting to think that damn near everything in this country is a fucking racket.

[MrSlayer]

1. What is the scrap value?

Half or less? Or are they simply abandoning it?

[hack89]

5. They are scrapping about 2000 MRAP trucks. nt

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Another Glorious Victory! Maybe they can build a monument to the cannon fodder with it.

[progressoid]

3. 7 Billion?

That a drop in the ocean for the Military Industrial Complex.

[HiPointDem]

4. "near everything in this country is a fucking racket" = indeed.

[Lurks Often]

6. Costs more then it is worth to fly it out of the country

None of our allies want the equipment because of the shipping costs and it is currently against the law to give to the Afghanistan government

[Hydra]

7. That's our future over there, being flushed

The other place it's being flushed is at the CIA and NSA where they use money that could bring us all healthcare, food and green jobs to spy on us and develop weapons that will be used to fight us(crowd control).

This is going to kill a lot of us in the end, I have a feeling.

[xiamiam]

12. this is what its about..profit and waste..and the surge really worked didn't it?

obscene

[frylock]

8. 7b here, 7b there..

pretty soon you're talking real money.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. We do this after every war

Go on to the outskirts of Hawaii... there are places that the local sea life has taken over, with M-4 Shermans and M-3 Halftracks. They were just thrown out from the end of transport ships. It was cheaper than getting them back stateside.

[msongs]

10. the soviets left piles of vehicles...and piles of corpses, we are doing the same nt

[Sherman A1]

11. Pardon me for a moment

[bigwillq]

13. 'Merica

[Comrade Grumpy]

14. Let's try to remember this the next time the Pentagon budget comes up.

Let's assume it costs $100,000 for someone to go to college and get a bachelor's degree.

That's 70,000 college educations, and we get a lot more out of those than piles of rusting junk.

[lpbk2713]

15. It's Monopoly money to them.

No BFD.