Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition!

Imagine the unemployment that might have been, if not for our dual wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Five hundred and fifty servicemen and contractors, supporting perhaps a thousand more family members, are located just fifty one miles north of my Elk Grove at Beale AFB, the new home of the MC-12W surveillance airplane...the Liberty:


Thank God for war, eh? What a boost to our regional economy! These airmen and airwomen will soon be blowing their incomes on popcorn and movie tickets at regional theaters, $1.50 hot dogs at the local Costco, and because housing on the base east of Marysville is in short supply, they will blow a fair percentage of their incomes on private automobiling to shuttle themselves to and from Placer and Sacramento counties. Detroit and BP must certainly be fond of war, too. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!

I garnered this information from a recent Sacramento Bee article, an article written by a Dale Kasler who, frankly, doesn't give a flying fuck (pardon the pun) about the need, the purpose, or a description of the use of this aircraft -- no, the article only describes what sorts of economic benefits the servicing of said aircraft provides for a Northern California community. If these things just sit in a Bagram hanger for the next two decades, or if they assist in the killing of a few thousand pajama-clad Mujahideen, hey, either way, at least those Marysville Dress-4-Less stores will benefit.

Hey, if these aircraft help us kill more Afghani infidels help our local economies, well, we shouldn't question their purpose, now should we, and we should all just stand behind the men and women working to keep this equipment operational. Do you think the Air Force would need these planes if we weren't actively at war? Would we really need 37 of these Beech 1900Ds-on-steroids at a cost of $17,000,000 a piece, plus whatever the ongoing maintenance costs are (to include these five hundred and fifty maintenance personnel)?

Doubtful.

Again, I give thanks to our Christian God above that he gave us Muslim extremists, so that our economy doesn't feel quite so bad. Praise the Lord, and pass the spanner wrenches.