Previously posted:

http://www.lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=725997

The way they sweat something had to be done.

I got a chuckle out of the well-fed Tub Stackers Of America opting for blue shirts instead of the original white ones that tended to accentuate their pachyderm dimensions.

Something in basic black with a nicely embroidered swastika, jack-boots and a riding whip should add a nice air of authority during the boarding selection process.

But will anyone ask her about it? Probably not.

What would we do without the Thousand Standing Around ? They have yet to thwart a hijacking but they will look cool as they continue to play their favorite game, Cowboys and Citizens.

Is this accurate? Somehow some of these wild spending items that are popping up seem impossibly expensive, even by the Alice in Wonderland standards of DC. $1000 per person for uniforms??? Is that possible?

For example, some sources claim 2.6 billion rounds of pistol ammo have been ordered. If this is accurate (and reports are that it is a factor of 1000 too high due to misreading the paperwork) and normal prices prevail, the cost will be at least $900 million for the ammo.

Add in the 2700 armored vehicles which have been reported for HS, estimating at least $500,000 each (seems **way** low) you wind up with a cost of $1.35 billion.

So, if these are right, HS is spending about $2.3 billion on armored vehicles and ammo. Is this $50 million just a drop in the bucket or are the other two stories baloney? Are we being played by these stories of wild spending or are they really running off of the rails?

Is anyone in Congress looking into these items to see if these make any kind of fiscal sense, quite aside from the bizarre/frightening nature of these ammo and armored vehicle buys (if real).

A quick comparison:
A TSA agent wears their uniform about 40 hours a week (unless working overtime at time and a half or double time.)

A US Army soldier (E4) wears their uniform around 60 hours a week (100+ if deployed to a combat zone). Of course, they don’t receive any overtime pay.

The TSA agent is allowed $1,000 for their uniforms.

The E4 receives $300 per year for their uniform allowance. From that, they must buy regular uniforms, PT uniforms, patches, insignia, ribbons, boots, shoes, PT belts, etc. In addition, they are required to have a dress uniform (an additional $300 to $500) for ceremonies and special events. Also they must replace all uniforms when the pentagon decides to change the design… every few years… without any increase in the uniform allowance.

If it´s true that you can judge a culture´s values by where they put their money, we´re paying for our own enslavement.

They needed to change the shirts to brown.

Didn´t the post office announce recently that they were also getting new uniforms ?

What sequester ? What fiscal cliff ?