After missing last week’s deadline to produce plans on how it would implement deep, automatic across-the-board cuts to defense spending early next year, the White House now says it will produce the report by Friday.
The Office of Management and Budget owed a report to Congress last Thursday on the effects of the budget restrictions known as “sequestration,” which hawks have warned would be devastating to national defense. But President Obama missed the deadline as he prepared to deliver his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
The White House has blown off several budget deadlines and having the defense cuts outlined during the convention would have marred the Democratic narrative on the final day of the convention…
The Pentagon is buying Chevrolet Volts to help “green up” the military—while propping up sales of the bailed-out automaker’s most politicized car.
The Department of Defense began purchasing the struggling luxury electric car, which retails at $40,000, this summer as part of its goal to purchase 1,500 such green vehicles…
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obama is sofa king retarded.
And to think they bitched when the pentagon was spending $800 dollars on a toilet seat…at least that had a use.
Also, where all the white women… oh there she is.
WTFF? Buying 1500 P.O.S. cars that GM loses $49K on each unit?
On what planet does that make any sense??
These would no doubt be purchased under a standard government cost-plus-fixed-fee (CPFF) award contract, which would get GM all of its money, in addition to 8% (limited by Congress) profit. Bailout disguised as commerce. This is how you get $230 hammers and $800 toilet seats.
Worse, it’s likely a pooled-rate approach will be used to determine cost, so that company-wide shared expenses like overhead, general & administrative, R&D, bid & proposal, etc. are all covered. It would be safe to say Uncle is going to be shelling out over $125k per vehicle, after all is said & done.
Just how many outlets are there in Afghanistan anyway?
I’m thinking they need to attach wings, tow them behind C-130′s and let the pilots practice blowing the damn things to hell.
It’s like when yer trying to earn a trip to camp by selling mediocre candy bars and after ya forget and leave ‘em in the car in the sun for a coupla days, ya hit the neighbors on either side but they’re not home and your Mom just buys ‘em all.
And then yer Mom hasta pay the $700 “administrative fee” for the camp anyway and the camp turns out to have alligators and the drained swimming pool is full of mosquitos and there’s one stuffed horse on wheels…
Don’t forget to add the charging outlets that will have to be added at various locations where the cars will live (far off temperature controlled warehouses?) at prices easily 3 to 4 times what it would cost a regular business. Hope the buildings’ grid can take the added load*. Then there is the process of updating the vehicle inspection checklist which will require a conflagration of comittees of comittees, safety training for the vehicle managers and all the potential drivers, annual training and parking them in secure areas where they won’t be stripped of the rare earth metals diverted from more important uses.
*But they will be driven primarily on gasoline (350 miles backup per tank vs 40 miles per charge) because most organizations won’t have the budget for the charging stations and it’s easier to stay with what is familiar.
mech, why do I have this vision of parking lots full of these new, never-used P.O.S. cars rusting/rotting/corroding away?
They will sit there until Obama is removed from office. Then the contract will be cancelled and the damned things will be sold for surplus.
This is just Obama finding new ways to pay his union cronies … nothing new to see here, move along.
( You will note that Chrysler has recovered. Fiat bought only their name, assets, and intellectual property. And then moved everything to deep red right to work states. Fuck you, UAW. )
This post story is both invenerial and irresyphilis! Why? Because GM IS going bankrupt for the second time AND they have stopped making Volts! Add to that all the (R&R) campaign ads targeting OBoBo & RATz with this *DOD Forced to Buy Volts That Americans Reject!* and watch how quick Press Secretary, Art Carney, explains “It was a DOD misunderstanding”—-followed by a Panetta TV apology!!!!!
This is a Republican “Gimme” if I ever saw one!
It’s a tie according to the polls???????????? Is there anything that would make Obama lovers change their minds??????? Anything???????
^ As Dief the Chief used to say back in the 60s, if you want to know the proper use for polls, ask a dog.
OT:
“Hey, I specifically requested a “No Masturbating” flight…”
They can park them with the rotting, formaldehyde outgassing FEMA trailers built for Katrina response.
And don’t forget the $28/gal jet/ship turbine biofuel to green up one of our naval task groups.
Our Perfumed Princes are beginning to stink like a barn that needs mucking out. Too much horseshit.
Gwillie – So then they have to buy gas generators to charge the electric cars?
What next? Hybrid tanks?
^ What next? Hybrid tanks?
They could make those tanks lighter, more responsive, and more renewably energy efficient if they replaced all that nasty, heavy armor with solar cells.
Maybe the DoD would like to drop a few billion to reconstitute Solyndra…
IinD – I like the solar cells for armor exchange. The sun reflecting off the tanks would blind the enemy with our brilliance.
Rickn8tor, I remember a story somewhere in the last year or so about a fleet of cars bought by some government agency and were found rotting in a warehouse. Anybody recall specifics?
BTW, these cars are not friendly to First Responders.
It was priuses in Miami that were rediscovered after three years. clicky
Thanks mech. I remembered the story but not the details.
Didn’t know Obama had a license. Was it issued in Kenya, Indonesia, Pakistan, Connecticut or Hawaii?
Mech 20: As a reformed (somewhat) liberal, I still believe in Darwin.
Therefore: I recommend that when First Responders spot a Volt that would otherwise be part of a rescue operation, they cordon off the vehicle and leave it and its occupant(s). Let Darwin take his course.
Ironic: Or wait until that on-call GM Volt specialist shows up.
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… or we could just send Nancy Pelosi and baffle them with our bullshit.
“…. across-the-board cuts to defense spending early next year,”
According to the Rules, companies – in this case, defense contractors – are required to send out 60-day notices telling employees that their services will no longer be required (WARN Act).
Those would arrive shortly before the election.
The White House (isn’t that a racist name???) is trying to bend the rules, saying that “it’s not definite, you know, so you don’t have to send those notices”.
More and more, Will Rogers’ quote is coming true: asked if he belonged to an organized political party, he replied, “No, I’m a Democrat”.