Congress recently struck down an amendment to the debt ceiling extension bill to prohibit the sale of military armament to Egypt by a 79 to 19 vote. The amendment was introduced by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) in an effort to block all current and remaining sales.
Now – follow the money. The most recent sale was for 125 M1A1 Abrams tank kits at the price of $1.3 billion, approved in August of 2011. These tanks went to Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood. The 24 F-16 fighter jets, approved in October of 2009, was when Hosni Mubarak was still President. For this illustration, we will focus on the tanks. Why did Paul’s block to the sale fail?
There is a bi-partisan alliance being created in Washington, but it’s not what you think. It is their alliance with each other, counting on the ignorance of Americans. They have made agreements of sorts to attack each other in order to pass the buck about what is really going on – and it’s all about the Benjamins.
The fact is we have none. It is no surprise that our nation is broke. Many have warned us, including the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Secretary of Defense, that our “national debt poses the greatest threat to our national security.” Here’s why.
The American government is under contract to buy a certain amount of military hardware. These contracts are with companies like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, and others. These are multi-year agreements that cannot be broken. I’ll use tanks to highlight the current dilemma with Egypt.
In the 2012 defense appropriations bill, Congress provided an additional $255 million to the Army to buy 42 more tanks that the Army did not need. The money was intended to keep the General Dynamics Land Systems’ production line open in Lima, Ohio.
According to Secretary of the Army, John McHugh, this is still 28 tanks shy of what is need to keep the plant open. It would cost the Army up to $800 million to close and later reopen the plant, which would be less than the $3 billion to keep it open during the same time. The solution – continue to sell the difference.
This is not new. In the past, the way we made up the deficit was to sell them to our allies. It was a win-win. We already have a mutual aid treaty with them by our common membership in NATO; so if they are more armed, it was in our national interest. Plus it gave us the ability to continue to purchase enough military hardware to keep the defense sector thriving.
Here’s the problem: Egypt is not an Ally. They are a mutual partner with whom we have had a good relationship since the Israeli-Egyptian Peace Accord of 1979. We have been selling tanks to Egypt for so long, we now co-op build the Abrams tanks – in Egypt. Specifically, we purchase them from General Dynamics who makes initial parts here, then they are shipped to Egypt for the final parts made there, and then they are assembled.
In 2011, if Congress would have not purchased the extra tanks and sold the remainder, the plant would have shut down. This would have put thousands of people in the unemployment lines during Obama’s re-election – most in Republican districts. The job losses would have looked bad for both the White House and Republicans, so the sale was approved against the recommendations of senior defense officials.
This is a money problem.
The exact thing has just happened again. Except this time, Egypt added a little pressure. The Muslim Brotherhood stated “what was acceptable before the revolution is no longer”, implying that if the US cuts aid, then they would not be so motivated to abide by the peace accord.
Enter now the deal with the devil. Congress caved. Some things cannot be undone – and this is one of them. This may sound like the possibility of a perfect storm. But when we as a Nation begin to negotiate aid with a foreign power via a threat of war, I see it more as an inevitable super-storm.
We have been paying off our enemies for decades, and we are now out of money. Our nation is almost bankrupt; and similar to our own family finances when we do not have enough money, payday advances and bad credit become a very real solution – and a very poor decision made out of financial duress.
Our nation is currently in the same predicament. Our poor defense decisions are only compounding the problem of national security we already had with North Korea, Iran, and China. We no longer are able to stand strong because we are weak, and the world knows it.
If Congress were to have blocked the sale, how do you think the thousands of American workers would feel to be out of a job? It is inevitable; it will get worse before it gets better. The scary part is since we have been subsidizing the problem for the last 10 years, I fear the worst of it has not yet even begun.
Every time we have hit a problem, we have paid our way through it. The bailouts, the stimulus, and quantitative easing have come and gone; and the treasury is running out of ink. This was not an Egypt problem. This was not a defense problem. This is a debt problem that has become a defense problem.
Soon, I fear, it will be everyone’s problem.
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Read more about it by visiting the source links below:
DSCA 36(b) Arms Sales Notifications: http://www.dsca.osd.mil/pressreleases/36-b/36b_index.htm
Army to Congress, No New Tanks: http://www.defensenews.com/article/20120307/DEFREG02/303070011/U-S-Army-Congress-No-New-Tanks-Please
Tank sales to Egypt 2011: http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=228506
Debt Ceiling Suspended: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/senate-approves-bill-suspending-debt-ceiling-20130131-01687
Aid to Egypt 2012: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/24/world/middleeast/once-imperiled-united-states-aid-to-egypt-is-restored.html?_r=0
Security threat of high debt: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/105301-mullen-reiterates-threat-excessive-debt-poses-to-nation#ixzz2JreUVgZg
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I believe it is a real big mistake for Obama and Congress to aid our enemies with weapons. My God help us.
It doesn’t take the intellect of Einstein to figure it out … he is a traitor who is aiding and arming our enemy (the Muslim Brotherhood). He wants them to use the weapons on Israel first, then they can be used against our troops.
And, he’s not “selling” them the F-16s and 200 tanks. He’s GIVING them to them. Any payment they make to the US will be made with our foreign aid money. More creative rippoff of the American taxpayer.
If congres won’t remove this traitor from office, charge him with treason, and punish him accordingly, it will fall to the People to do it.
The only reason Obama is GIVING planes, tanks, and ammo to the Middle East is to help wipe Israel off the map. DOHS is amassing ammunition for Obama’s army. Nothing else.
Remember when he said: “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
I believe the national security force he is talking about will be the Muslim Brotherhood, the people in the terrorist training camps, here in the US, the illegals who have been given amnesty and you can be sure he will give amnesty to anyone who comes here to join his army, along with about 100,000 Bolsheviks, Obama will make promises to give them more incentive. I belive he might even tell Mexicans “Come here and join my army and help crush the US he will you your land back we stole (bought).” The New Black Panthers will be directing traffic, handing out pamphlets as to where to go to get sworn into his army, get their battle gear and taken to a modern compound. There will be blood flowing in the streets of America in time!!!
The Nazis called it the Gestapo and the SS. DHS and other alphabet agencies have recently purchased over 1.8 BILLION rounds of hollow point ammo – enough to shoot every man, woman, and child in the country 5 times or more – ammo that’s illegal for military use under international law, and have just ordered 7,000 FULLY AUTOMATIC “personal defense” weapons. How does anyone with the capability of rational thought escape the conclusion that our government is preparing for a war on its own citizens?
Feinstein, Schumer, Obama, Holder, Bloomberg, Cuomo, and their whole gang are tyrant wannabes. To them, anyone who does, or might, oppose their control over every aspect of our lives, is “a criminal” because they said so.
To quote a few of their heroes, with explanatory comments in ( ):
“Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.” – Mao
(They revere Mao and the way he ruthlessly grabbed power in China. The fact that he murdered about 100 million Chinese to do it is, to them, a “feature,” not a “bug.”)
“If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. … The only real power comes out of a long rifle. … Everyone imposes his own system as far as his army can reach. … We don’t let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns? … The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.” — Joseph Stalin
“The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed the subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the supply of arms to the underdogs is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty.” — Adolf Hitler
(These psychopathic sociopaths in our government – and THEY ARE PRECISELY THAT, never make the mistake of doubting it – believe that they are anointed to be our rulers and that we are the equivalent of Hitler’s “subject races.” And we know what they did to “them.”)
Don’t tell me, “It can’t happen here in America.” To borrow a quote from Mike Vanderboegh,
“Anyone who tells you that ‘It Can’t Happen Here’ is whistling past the graveyard of history. There is no ‘house rule’ that bars tyranny coming to America. History is replete with republics whose people grew complacent and descended into imperial butchery and chaos.”
Hitler disarmed the Jews and others, then murdered millions
Stalin disarmed the Russians, them murdered millions
Mao disarmed the Chinese peasants, then murdered nearly 100 million.
The Turks disarmed the Armenians, then murdered 1.5-2 million.
Pol Pot disarmed the Cambodians and murdered millions.
Rwanda disarmed its ethnic groups, then murdered millions.
The list goes on … about 262 MILLION people murdered BY THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS in the 20th century – AFTER they allowed those governments disarmed them. See: http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
They ALL thought “It can’t happen here” – until they were disarmed and it started, then it was too late. Don’t make the same mistake. Don’t EVER let your government disarm you.
The Founders knew that government, if not constrained at every step, will continue to accumulate power and control until it becomes tyranny. That’s why they feared standing armies and insisted that the “right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
“A tyrannical rule cannot in any reasonable construction be accounted lawful, and therefore the disturbance of such a government cannot be esteemed seditious, much less traitorous.” – Thomas Aquinas
When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance becomes Duty – Thomas Jefferson
Take the pledge:
http://oathkeepers.org/oath/2012/12/19/my-personal-pledge-of-resistance-against-any-attemp-to-disarm-us-by-means-of-an-assault-weapons-ban/
This , because Obama/Davis does not want to stop spending???????? Selling military equip. to our enemies is still treason, no matter what spin you put on it…..and will probably end up being used against us. Such morons. I do not believe!!!!
This gal will be checking out of here before all that comes to pass. The devil himself sits in the White House. I thought I heard they were gonna close Guantomino and bring those people to our prisons?, someone say it isn’t so.
It’s a cost cutting move. If they are already here, it will cost less when they release them and transfer them to Obama’s DHS Gestapo. I know you’ll say that doesn’t make sense, but it makes perfect sense to a liberal.
Mark Levin is right. There is an agent for the Muslim Brotherhood illegally(my word, not Mark’s) occupying the White House, which is OUR house, as in “We the People” the very first Branch of Government.
It is not king obama’s house. It is OUR house and the Muslim Brotherhood bastard needs to be evicted.
The answer to the question in the title of this article is simple, Obama being what he is which is a Sunni Muslim, thinks like a Sunni Muslim and he wants what most if not all devout Sunni Muslim’s want which is the total and complete destruction and annihilation of the land of Israel.
Mohammad Morsi announced during his inauguration, that he intends to make Jerusalem the Capital of Egypt. Only an insane person would arm president Morsi, ether an insane person, or a Sunni Muslim full of hate for Israel and Jewish people all over the world.
I know, Obama has a few Jews in his inner circle, but they are like him, whacked out Democrats, and to be a Democrat in support of what the Democrats believe in, one cannot be a real Jew, the two simply do not mix well together.