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business insider
reports on
absolutely stunning insanity in the government
the u_s_ military is in the process of junking seven that billion dollars worth
of military equipment as it exists
phone sorry as it exits
uh... afghanistan
you're just gonna junk seven billion dollars of the stuff
awaits a yen or the details
ernesto un dono of the washington post
of reported on this
the pentagon found it would be too costly to ship
you no longer needed equipment back to the united states
and most of it can be given to the afghan government
or an allied nation
so the military is destroying most of it and selling it on the afghan scrap
market for a few cents per pound
uh... the excess equipment amounts to more than twenty percent of all the
equipment the military has deployed to afghanistan
u_s_ military officials a toll on dono
but the cost of disposal effort
is unprecedented
among the gear being destroyed
are two thousand mine resistant ambush protected vehicles or and more a piece
that the military
party to produce in two thousand seven to combat the effective i_t_t_'s in
roadside bombs
last year of study found that
uh... those vehicles cost
a million dollars beach
i would have loved to have been in the room when whoever made that decision
whether be the pentagon the administration wherever
they said yeah you know it's true costly to bring these things homer find a
better use for them so i i leave elated there nobody else practical scrap seven
billion dollars worth of stuff
you know what else is wasteful you know what else
costs too much
nearly seven million dollars in stock in afghanistan for no reason whatsoever
got out resumes our government
look if my math is correct on this that's about twenty two dollars per
person in the united states of america
so it's like uh...
the government
it's like the government
but
was like a winning at that time works well for you
here you go government off the exercise aren't usually japanese corrected up
legislature yet i mean they're nice
forty-two dollars for no reserving the library
and those are all up in florida paper writing