Maybe I will go on a speaking tour of engineering schools and let them know what really confronts them in this business. Then they can go into Civil Engineering and be valued when they get to be 50 instead of thrown out like yesterday’s trash. FU

Why are both of you so afraid of defending the foolish cuts you propose to the point where you would rather just rant and whine about us conservatives for not thinking that Obama knows best.

Most phrases have some sort of sexual meaning these days. It was your beloved liberal media who came up with the “teabaggers” label for protesters and used it as much as possible like a bunch of giggling school children.

Perhaps you liberals should take your own advise and step out your houses to meet some real Americans rather than imaging everybody is some Obama-fanboy who wants to slash the military budget. I live in a blue state yet I know plenty of conservatives here, and many aren’t fond of the job Obama has been doing, nor am I. A declining viewpoint? The facts indicate that far more Americans identify themselves as “conservative” over “liberal” these days, and Obama and congress are going to see firsthand how quickly the country can turn on them for poor policy. Yet up until the bitter end, you and your ilk will imagine that everybody wants this awful healthcare bill passed with the “public option” added back in.

Those conservative think tanks you are constantly whining about are far more scholarly and informative than any such liberal “think tank” which usually consists of some bloggers with absolutely no understanding of government or security. It must enrage you that Heritage and others have an opinion that actually matters unlike whatever you read.

Playing the racist card again isn’t going to work Russ, and you can whine about people like Rush Limbaugh all you want, but like it or not the 1st Amendment isn’t there to only work in favor of you liberals. The level of your hypocrisy is simply astounding. It is as if you literally forgotten the past years of clueless liberals whining and holding protest signs about “BusHitler” and the EVIL!!! Dick Cheney.

Naturally you liberals try to defend your shallow thinking by trying to characterize all of us as either rednecks or upper class Wall Street bankers, but unfortunately the reality isn’t in your favor.

“Tension over industry protests boils over as companies experience ‘amazing success’ at overturning Pentagon contract awards”

http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists…

This current FMTV issue is just part of a larger problem. We can argue about whether it’s whiny contractors, incompetent evaluators, dirty politics, all three, or just the way it has to be. But argue we should; without some conflict on this issue to bring it to light, we’ll never improve.

In the Marines my job allowed me to drive the MTVR and LVS (both oshkosh trucks) — They are great but would not last a second in an IED attack.

I have built the RG33 CAT I and CAT II (BAE vehicles) — and it should be known that the BEA product will likely be FAR superior to the Oshkosh variant. That is what BAE does — they build ballistic quality vehicles — Oshkosh is more of a dominant commercial vehicle producer with a large hand in the commercial side of the defense market (look at the MTVR and LVS) …

You asked a question and I gave you my answer. Those are the “facts” debate them if you chose, it appears that though that you chose not to.

Daniel. I’m not really comfortable with labeling all conservatives as the rabble of beer swilling, crack heads that we call “Tea Baggers”, who for twenty buck will stand on a street corner and yell and carry signs, wear Tim McVey T Shirts, for what ever winger cause shows up with the cash. I know many sincere, serious minded Conservatives that want nothing to do with the Tea Baggers or Minutemen and are deeply offended by conservatives who parade for the TV cameras.

There are defensible positions for Conservatives on most of these defense issues but most chose to not to take them.

One over riding though that keeps coming back to me is that the excess spending on defense projects over the post WW II era appear to be a major contributor to the decline of the American middle class.

The upper end of the middle class as conservatives are willing to point out prospered in post war America and became members of the wealthy upper classes, but the majority that composed the middle and the emerging bottom of the middle class fell backwards into an overly educated working class that is under utilizing Americans human/labor resources.

I find it amusing that conservatives love to be critical of income redistribution when it comes to social programs, but are indifferent to the declining tax rates and tax breaks that have been bestowed on the wealthy “investor class”.

It is to America’s discredit that an earned income is taxed higher then an unearned income, that money “gambled” in hedge funds that support no economic activity or create job one are enterprises to big to fail but the guy working for a paycheck to support a family can take the economic brunt of this severe recession.

While at the same time it is this working class that provide the men and women who serve and die in our armed forces, while the wealthy classes don’t have time for such foolishness.

ALLONS,
Byron Skinner

You are correct as usual. But don’t expect the wingnuts to understand humor, metaphors, puns or arcane references. Case in point– last summer they were all “tea baggers” until they discovered an entire culture outside their “think tanks”. “Oh my God Marge, tea bagging is a sexual thing. I thought it was that little bag you put in a glass of hot water.…those ‘liberals’ are ruining our language”.

Then they had to scramble and change the name to “Tea Partiers”. I think they could have saved themselves the trouble had they only come out of their comfortable flag draped bubbles and meet Americans outside of their churches and country clubs. The majority of Americans of all persuasions and colors don’t agree with them, and a majority of Americans still get their facts from factual sources as opposed to wingnut AM talk radio and Glenn “crybaby” Beck and a host of other homophobics and yes, racists. (I have learned from “conservatives” that if you put anything in quotation marks that makes it suspect.)

Liberal is just a point of view. Not an epithet. However, members of “conservative think tanks” are not scholars, they are bloggers and writers who are paid for an exact point of view, not independent “thinking”. Too many of them are cowards that call for wars they won’t volunteer for themselves. Their minions sit around all day and surf the internet looking for succor and solace ( Visual: “conservatives” running to the dictionary) in a political party’s point of view that grows smaller by the day.

It’s comical to see “conservatives” get upset when people call them on their hypocrisy and plagiarism.

Finally, I really wish this great site was dominated by policy discussions and facts versus the drunken anti-Obama anti liberal screeds that have no basis in fact and are not germane to the discussion at hand.

Respectfully,

Daniel Russ
Civilianmilitaryintelligencegroup.com

PS– Visit my site and read the article about Dylan Furgeson, a 23 year old Warrant Officer who is one of the youngest pilots to fly both the CH-47 and the AH-64 and is in southern Afghanistan.

The problem with any possible discussion with you and your ilk is that you don’t want an honest exchange of ideas though from time to time you may condescend to discuss ideas that you have already closed the book on.

I will continue check out this site and other related to defense related news but its comments like yours and others who will keep me from post or even reading the comments attached to each story. Unlike some my military career doesn’t leave me a lot of spare time to wax poetic about how important my own thoughts are.

Proofread is your friend.

Could possibly be the funniest and truest comment on a military blog ever.

Respectfully,

Daniel Russ
Civilianmilitaryintelligencegroup.com