Instrumentus Mustelidae
where’s the lotion for US?!?
Sold out for a lousy seven thousand pieces of silver.
Scientists have discovered a lotion that can save the lives of U.S. soldiers exposed to chemical weapons — a product vastly superior to the standard-issue decontamination powder.
Naturally, the Defense Department wants to scrap the powder and switch to the more-effective lotion.
...After being lobbied by the companies making the powder, several members of Congress pushed through two earmarks worth $7.6 million that forced the military for the past two years to keep buying the inferior product.
...Among the lawmakers who championed the earmarks are Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y.... [who] received nearly $7,000 in campaign donations from the beneficiaries of these earmarks in recent years ...; [and] Arlen Specter, R-Pa.,...[who] got more than $47,000; ...and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
She so deserves that SecState position. Best EPIC FAIL UPWARD, evah.
[Rohm and Haas, the Philadelphia company making the M291 resin] spent $830,000 lobbying Congress and the military on the decontamination kits and other issues in 2005, public records show. Since then, the company has spent another $2.3 million lobbying Congress.
..."In self-defense, we’ve gone to our representatives in Congress and we’ve said: ‘You know, let’s lay our cards on the table — we’re in business to provide a living and jobs in your district,’ “ Kohn said in a recent interview.
No, you flaming douchetool, you’re not. You’re in business to make a product and a profit. And you’ve been bested cuz you didn’t keep up. Get with it or get out - don’t go weaseling your way to the Weasels for a weaselly little bailout. Ya weaselly little doocheweasel.*
*apologies to actual stoats and mustelidae everywhere.
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