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Subject:
YOU AND YOUR EARMARKS NEED TO GO THE CORRUPTION NEEDS TO STOP
To:
Sen. Thomas Carper
October 3, 2009
"Every dollar that we are forced to spend on things which we do not need requires us to take money from things which we do need. And the people who lose in that trade-off are our troops and the taxpayers," said Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary.
The Pentagon did not request cold-weather gloves for troops in Afghanistan. But Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware secured $5 million for W.L. Gore, Gore-Tex, which has 640 employees in his state.
"You know, special forces are fighting in very difficult conditions in the winters in the mountains in Afghanistan. I want to make sure they have what they need to be safe," Carper said.
Carper acknowledges that his earmark will help folks back home, but he says it helps troops, too. That's also what Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe says about the $20 million she's sending home to Maine to fix Humvees.
Snowe said she didn't know whether the Pentagon specifically asked for the funds. "But it's not only the Pentagon's decisions," she said. "There are several branches of government. Legislative branch is one of the three. And I think it's a mutual decision-making process."
SAINT INIGOES , MD
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