RE: No Surprise....
April 23, 2013 at 10:15 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2013 at 10:18 pm by A_Nony_Mouse.)
(April 23, 2013 at 8:14 pm)Dragonetti Wrote: The reason why is local jobs! Congress and Senate fight tooth and nail to save anything in their own state, but screw the rest or the greater good.
It is worse than that. These small, uneconomical useless bases were opened mostly during WWII. Obviously congress didn't take that war all that seriously.
(April 23, 2013 at 8:30 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Contractors help this process along - by distributing the manufacture of their products as widely as possible - so that no cut in any particular states funding will lessen their share of the pork come dinner-time.
That is done but you have the reason in reverse. Spreading the work across states helps prevent congressrats from killing programs that do not benefit their districts no matter how necessary.
