$100 million in taxpayer dollars for Obama's luxury Africa vacation, but no money for Marines at Camp LeJeune to enjoy July 4th fireworks
July 4, 2013 by BareNakedIslam 20 Comments
Military members and their families at North Carolina's Marine Corps base Camp Lejeune are scratching their heads after the base would not reverse its decision to cancel its fireworks display despite a Pennsylvania company offering to do it for free.
The Blaze In early May, the government announced the fireworks would be cancelled at both Camp Lejeune and Fort Bragg. Back then, budget cuts known as sequestration were blamed. But when the Zambelli Family from Pennsylvania, which has put on the display for the base before, heard about the cuts, it offered to do the show for free.
The government turned them down. Why? Because there are too many other costs associated with putting on the display that don't involve just the fireworks.
And that seems to be in line with other stories. WFAE-RADIO reported the same thing earlier this week, even saying that the city of Jacksonville, North Carolina (where Lejuene is located), offer to front the bill for the fireworks, too:
Fahy says the city of Jacksonville offered to cover the cost of fireworks – about $25,000. But that still left the base short $75,000 for other expenses like security, food and paying staff overtime to host 20,000 people.
Still, some military families aren't happy. "It's a load of crap," veteran Mark Bergman told KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh. "We sacrifice everything, our time with our families. We dedicate ourselves to our jobs, and we do it better than anybody else in the world."
lindarm says
And it is not just fireworks folks. The furloughs for agencies supporting the military and their families, are going into furlough for 11 weeks starting the 8th. All told those in furlough will cost these rank and file people who do vital work, will suffer a 20% pay cut . How many people can afford to do that? I suppose it beats the original 22 weeks which the furloughs were supposed to be, but it sure as heck isn't going to help those of us whose families will be affected, and that includes military families as well.
OH but God forbid Moochelle shoudl have to give up anything, or the staffers in Congress who are scared of Obamacare. Maybe they should have thought it all out before they voted for the scum.
SweetOlBob says
The slimey litle bastard (back off ! I refuse to change that comment because,according to recent info. about Frank Marshall and his momma,it more than likely is true) wants to punish our Armed forces,especially the Army Infantry and the Marines so they will get mad and leave the armed forces. Therby leaving the U.S. with no trained and able individuals to protect us.
antimuslim says
happy 4th miister o'butthole!
Gatouno says
What an amazing quote from Cicero. Wonder if he knew BHO in a former life……
Well another billion of fake dollar bills will be printed Monday. Hither did that all the time. The Liberal party showed how good Obama looked with Hitlers toothbrush moustache.
smooth lee says
What a pile of bs obamass, and his ilk in feather, are. That's the type of "heart and soul" he and his lefty fascist punk buddies and supporters have. It's all about "Me, me, me, me, me", isn't it, hussein? His, and their, egoism, is profound in its audacity. Would love to show him the same door his egyptian cohort, morsi, was exited out. I really dislike using the word "hate", but it's an easy exception to make for BO. Whew! What is that stomach churning foul odor?
Ron Homan says
The muslims in the Dark House could care less about true Americans. Notice their flat fore heads from banding them on the floor.
100 million wasted dollars is nothing new to this obama family with it's multi million dollar vacations and so on. 2016 is coming and obama can be given the boot.
A lot of disappointed little kids and their families. Camp Le Jeune is a city. It would be a dollar per person.
Letting the family do it for free would've been nice. They could have even agreed to pay the bill in installments. Someone upstairs doesn't want to think.
And, yes, Linda, they probably don't understand the military mind because they haven't done it. They let others take the discipline, the pressure and the danger for them and then look down on them. The military are the best of citizens, because they serve by standing between us and our enemies.
Palestinian jihadist group claims credit for Arizona wildfire
The group warned that the attacks "will not be the last…if America does not respond to our demands." The statement boasted that 19 firefighters had been killed in the fires.
http://www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2013/07/masadat_al_mujahideen_claims_c.php
Maria, I don't believe them. bin-Laden had instructed his jihadists to start forest fires in the West but there has never been any evidence that they have. The Pali scum, with their low IQs, are using the fires to make demands, knowing full well that summer is when most of the forest fires occur. Also, the article says they have claimed responsibility for dozens of fires.
NikitaAnne says
Don't forget the pampered prisoners 'suffering' at Gitmo while US soldiers are deprived, forgotten, shunned, defunded, bound by suicidal policies to 'win the hearts and minds' of enemies, and wholeheartedly detested by Obama.
Happy 4th of July to all my patriotic American neighbors, just imagine the fireworks when Obama is impeached and behind bars. Dare to dream, it is the American way. Cheers.
Audrey Russo says
Sorry, but this man is despicable…
englishmaninexile says
Hi Audrey, Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your interview of Paul Western on your show recently.
Linda Rivera says
Obama and his administration HATE the military.
hardiharhar says
Personally, I can't classify this as an issue. Setting off fireworks is such an infantile and plebeian entertainment; to me really a bore. But if it has meaning to the enlisted men and it gets denied while the s.o.b. chief blows $100 million to visit the continent of his birth, then we do have an issue. If you check out military.com and read comments by enlisted men on any article involving Obama, you'll see that 99% of them find him despicable. If he ever called out the army against the citizens, he'd find the army turning the guns on him.
I think it was Adams who wrote that this day should be celebrated with fireworks. A tradition from the beginning days of the republic. Something that means nothing to the bastard spawn of a communist adulterer who values the koran above the constitution and its First Amendment.
that's probably why during his second inaugural parade the Marines rifles were unable to fire.
ADHD says
I SURE HOPE SO!!!! Probably he'll still find enough of them will obey him and kill not a few Americans.
Even if he completely fails in that regard, the Moslem terrorists and the UN rogue-troops he'll certainly call upon to help him destroy the USA will not fail to make life miserable for all too many people if not worse!!!
Nevertheless, let me please congratulate – even if belatedly – the American People on the 237th-anniversary of their Independence as a nation!! BRAVISSIMI!!!!
DEATH TO ISLAM – and ALL totalitarianism!!!!!
Was it necessary for you to express your sentiment, " . . such an infantile and plebeian entertainment;" about fireworks? That looks a little to me as something of a put-down of our soldiers and their families, and us ordinary citizens in general. So, maybe it's actually better for them, their children, us, to be spared something that is "really a bore."? I'm every bit the child when it comes to seeing a great fireworks display, especially in celebration of our great nations's birthday, and I'm a 65 yo retired professor.