"First the DHS needed 450 million rounds of ammunition, then the NOAA requested 46,000 rounds, now we've discovered an online request at FBO.Gov calling for 174,000 rounds of ammunition for the Social Security Administration.
The request actually calls for 174K .357 hollow points that arguably have as much stopping power as any bullet out there, and hollow points do as much damage to soft tissue as possible on top of that.
R.K. Campbel at Gun Blast mentions his experience with .357 rounds:
I observed the effect of the .357 Magnum 125 grain JHP once over the top of my own sights. The effect was gruesome. A solid hit that produced a severe blood flow AND dramatic effect from the rear, including lung tissue thrown perhaps three feet.
The 125 grain and JHP (jacketed rounds) are exactly the ones requested by the SSA and their offices of Inspector General and Investigation.The FBO has a link that lists all locations slated to receive the batches of bullets. Offices like Greensboro, NC are getting a mere 1,000 rounds while offices like Iselin, NJ are getting 10 times that number.
Alex Jones' InfoWars is quick to point out that this acquisition jibes with a DHS operation in January where the agency swarmed a Leesburg, FL social security office and posted armed guards outside the doors."
Is our government expecting trouble? Is anybody else uncomfortable with the idea of non-law enforcement agencies stockpiling ammunition? It doesn't give me a "warm and fuzzy" feeling.
A few months ago the Washington Post reported that heavily armed special agents of the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Inspector General raided a home in Stockton, CA. While it wasn't a S.W.A.T team as originally reported, the concept of "heavily armed Education Department employees" still leaves a bit unnerved. I think I would have preferred that they turn cases like this over to the FBI.
I guess the next time someone opposed to the 2nd Amendment asks, "Why would an ordinary American citizen need an AK-47?" Maybe one answer might be "Because apparently NOAA and the Social Security Administration have .357 magnums with hollow point ammunition!"
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-does-the-social-security-administration-need-174000-rounds-of-ammunition-2012-8#ixzz23fcypIYM
The "Pull up the Ladder Party"
ReplyDeleteYou've again split the world along ideological lines, when the real divide is generational. We have witnessed the most massive transfer of wealth since the siloviki asset stripped the former Soviet Union, only this one intergenerational. Of course an optional war and prescription drug benefits haven't helped. Insert "our cherished and deserving ageing citizens" for "deserving rich" and you start to at least frame the problem. Boomers have run off with the loot and now, knowing no shame (like means testing of anything), they're pulling up the ladder. Having written the rule book and and written themselves generous benefits in a pre-globalized world, they now insist that the benefits be delivered as promised in a post-globalized, post-financial crisis world, sucking the very life blood out of the productive portion of the economy; taking a razor to an already precarious safety net. Saint Grover and his acolyte Paul Ryan want to reduce government spending as a percentage of GDP to 20%. The math simply doesn't work. Reagan only ever achieved 25%. It's unpatriotic, it's unethical, and it's WRONG. In such an environment your children's inheritance is debt, dust, and decay. The wealthy SHOULD arm themselves. Eventually they'll come for you. Scared yet? If not you should be.
If liberals devoted 1/10th as much energy to solving problems rather than coming up with new names for their political opponents, we would be in much better shape as a country. As to the split, it is both ideological and generational - multi-generation actually. It is ridiculous to try and tag the Republican Party as the "Pull Up the Ladder" Party because Republicans don't believe that there is a finite pie; one man's success don't come at the expense of someone else - therefore there is no motive. The Democrats don't pull up the ladder, they just put more grease on the rungs than the upper-class put on Herndon Monument for the "No More Plebes" ceremony.
ReplyDeleteI agree that the perscription drug benefit was a mistake. Regardless of the pre/post globalization world argument what you are actually describing is greed. It doesn't matter whether it is individuals, unions, or governments: a pyramid scheme will eventually collapse. It just takes longer when the entity running it is large.
Lastly, liberals have a strange concept of what is unpatriotic. They root for our enemies during conflict, won't stand during the national anthem, and believe there is nothing fundamentally different between the United States and Greece. However it is unpatriotic to not want to give more of the money you earned to a chronically wasteful government so that they can provide a "safety net." Safety net? Conservatives believe in a safety net under the "Man on the Flying Trapeze" or "The Girl Walking the High Wire." Liberals want the safety net under every swingin' johnson under the Big Top including people just sitting in the bleachers watching the show!