Since 1983, Bob Gorrell has been an editorial cartoonist in Richmond, Va. first with the Richmond News Leader and then, starting in 1992, with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. On January 1, 1998, he resigned from the Times-Dispatch to concentrate on syndicated editorial cartoons and comic panel features for Creators Syndicate.
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MortyForTyrant said, 7 months ago
The military, boys. The M-I-L-I-T-A-R-Y!!! It costs a million dollars a year to keep a soldier in the field. A MILLION! How is that possible? How did you win WW2? Not at that price, I tell you! Why do Halliburton/KBR have to cook for your soldiers, at $20 per meal? Why do you buy gas from KBR at $10 per gallon? Why does your new fighter jet needs to be build in 42 different states? And why does it need a second engine from a different contractor?
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The GOP is always talking about “waste, fraud and abuse” when it comes to entitlement-programs. Well, guess what: the biggest entitlement-program in all of America is called “The Pentagon”. What does a VTOL-jet do to fight Al-Quida? Why do you have some 4000 Abrams tanks standing in some desert, waiting for refurbishment? Are “The Russians” going to come over the pole? These B-52 bombers from the 70’s (scheduled to be in service until 2050!) – are they any good to bomb Iran, the nation with the best air-defense network in the world right now?
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Cut. Then cut again. Ignore the screams and cut for a third time. YOU ARE BROKE! Get that into your stupid heads and cut again…
What-D-Hey said, 7 months ago
Agreed – the military somehow needs to be financed/run by a non-partisan group. I worked as a contractor for a defense group so I know it is bad and out of control. The counter argument is that, if you think about it, defense is the number one thing for which governments are created. If you were to establish your own country, the first thing you would (or should) do is to provide for the defense of same. Otherwise someone will take it away – by force or by nefarious means.
dtroutma
said, 7 months ago
“Hellfire” missile= $68,000. F-35 “program” = $1.3 TRILLION. The “military” isn’t the real problem, it is “defense” and contracting. How come Republicans fight any “defense” cuts, just as hard as they fought to defend “contractors”, called pharmaceutical companies, on Medicare Part D profits.
Yes, there ARE cuts that can be made, just as there are tax increases that must occur to balance any budget. The trick is, who takes the hit, corporations, the wealthy, or the rest of the nation, as in continuing collapse of our infrastructure?
MortyForTyrant said, 7 months ago
@What-D-Hey
Oh, I’m all for defense! REAL defense! But since WW2 your defense has become an awful lot offensive, in both meanings of the word.
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You maintain bases all over the world and run into trouble at some of them regularly – Okinawa’s girls seem to be very pretty. You are still “training” the Iraqis – some training that is, at 15.000 trainers or so, not even the Russians gave that level of “training” to Cuba. Your subs play stupid games with the Russian subs, sometimes endangering both crews. There are 20.000 U.S. soldiers in South Korea. What are they gone do when the NINE MILLION North Korean soldiers start moving?
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And then, on top off all that nonsense, you have the “Department of Homeland Security”. What now, the military is not responsible for the security of the homeland? Forget about “defense” and call a spade a spade: “The War Department”, like is was known during WW2. That would clear out the mud in the water pretty fast and serious cuts would be easier…
dannysixpack said, 7 months ago
outsourcing the building and servicing of our weapons of war AND outsourcing the cooking for our soldiers is a terrible breach of security. this needs to be done in-house by soldiers subject to military law and military justice.
defense contractors and their profits OUT OF THE MILITARY!!!!!
Radish
said, 7 months ago
Modern Warfare: A 700 million dollar plane drops a 50,000 dollar bomb on a 1 dollar tent.
Respectful Troll said, 7 months ago
I LOVE this cartoon. This has the parties right where we want them. I have a refrigerator dolly, if we get one more, set these two guys on them and then go to the end of 6th Street in DC at the docks beside the Potomac, we can drop these two where they can do twice as much good as they are right now.
Such an evil thought, but the sight of them already wearing their concrete galoshes, just makes me all warm and murderous inside.
oh well.
C.
Radish
said, 7 months ago
@Respectful Troll
They would make a great breakwater.
Tigger
said, 7 months ago
In late December 2010, why did Obama fail tp Veto the Bill extending the Bush Tax Cuts passed by the Democrat Controlled House and Democrat Controlled Senate?
It was Override Proof, this is proof Obama is a Bold faced Liar when he says he wants folks like him making over $250K to pay more in Taxes, for if this were true, he would have done the right thing and Vetoed the Bill extending the Bush Tax Cuts.