Senator Bob Bennett brought home the bacon again. This time he did it by carving $5 million from the military’s operating budget. The $5 million will be given to a Utah company called Storyrock to make scrapbook DVDs for soldiers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The DVDs sure sound warm and fuzzy but when you realize this is taking away $5 million worth of weapons, equipment, and food from our military, it suddenly doesn’t seem like such a good idea. One Pentagon official said, ““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.”
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