Tuesday, April 29, 2014

We're buying who what?

Obama keeps topping himself


"As we're leaving, the Afghan military, they're looking for helicopters," Hoekstra explained. "They want about 90 attack helicopters. All right. You say, 'Hey, great! They're going to be buying 90 helicopters, that's going to be putting a lot of Americans to work.'

"Wrong. We're buying Russian helicopters for the Afghan military, and the interesting thing about helicopters is that they're high-maintenance. So, not only are we buying about a billion dollars' worth of Russian helicopters, but we're also providing the Russian military industrial complex, the people that build these helicopters, we're providing them with maintenance contracts that are multiple numbers of this one billion," he said Monday.

I am not making this up.  cuzzin ricky

5 comments:

Esteve said...

It's the least we can do for our loyal friend, Hamid Karzai as he prepares to retire as a billionaire. Same for our buddy Putin.

Anonymous said...

Somewhat like the fabulous power-generating windmills, fabricated in Europe and shipped to all parts of the good old USA, employing quite a few teamsters to ferry them from port to locations, and seamen and longshoremen to run the ships and load and unload them.

But no US steel, nor steelworkers. No US boilermakers, or I&E personnel.

I wonder if that indicates the relative support the Big 0 had from those respective unions.

Anonymous said...

Well, I hate to sound like I agree with anything this administration does, but I can see the logic in the backwards nation of Afghanistan using the more simple Roosky helos, as opposed to the more sophisticated American models.

Rodger the Real King of France said...

or,maybe recognizing that Obama has no gains to protect and leaving them with nothing?

Anonymous said...

Fair point, Your Majesty. Long Live The Real King !!!!

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