Why are the feds loading up on so much ammo? 79 Comments By Andrew Malcolm Posted 02/

[ryan8558]

Of course there is yet another explanation, equally as onerous and disgusting. And this has to do with how the government spends the public's money and baseline budgeting.

Each government agency receives X amount of dollars each year for operations. Any unspent monies are returned to the treasury at the end of the fiscal year. This returned monies MAY have the effect of altering the next years appropriations for that agency. (Obviously not under the current 'continuing resolution' process that the government is operation under, but that can change and old habits die hard.) So each year there is a scramble by the various agencies to spend every single penny allocated. In the case where there is a projected surplus of dollars at the end of the fiscal year many of the agencies engage in what can only be called 'creative purchasing.' Each agency wants to make certain that they end the year with 0 balance on the books so as to bolster the argument that they need even more dollars for the coming fiscal year.

So all of these nonsensical purchases, of which guns and ammo are but a part, may be nothing more than the government agencies pissing away the public's money this year so they will have even more money to piss away next year.

The problem, of course, is that these nonsensical purchases become part of an ongoing program that the taxpayer must support ad infinitum.

Ishmael

That is quite possibly one of the reasons. The businesses I have worked for have done the same. If you don't spend your budgeted money for the year it will not be on the next year's budget. Then when the company wants to do a 5% cut of expenses you will be cutting 5% of the budget used and not the allocated budget.

Need to look at more of their spending, besides the excess ammo and the 2300 armored vehicles, to determine if this is the case though.

 

[Beco]

There's no reason to view the government with suspicion that it's getting ready to massacre us. There's just not.

They are loading up for a reason? But what?

 

[mercury14]

They are loading up for a reason? But what?

The question was posed to a couple government agencies and they responded.

 

[mustang200]

Here is your "lack of a credible explanation".

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/...in-stockpiling-bullets-claim-88179.html?hp=r3

Those are two creditable sources. The feds say "Nah, we ain't doin' that." and the MSM says, "Yeah, right, what he said."

Have some more koolaid.

 

[koalabear]

The question was posed to a couple government agencies and they responded.

*views post*

LMAO

 

[mustang200]

There's no reason to view the government with suspicion that it's getting ready to massacre us. There's just not.

*shrug*

Tell that to the folks who died at Wounded Knee.

 

[Beco]

Tell that to the folks who died at Wounded Knee.

Wounded Knee, Waco, Ruby Ridge, Fast and Furious....

 

[Beco]

The question was posed to a couple government agencies and they responded.

and you believe everything your gov tell you as da truth? Come on dude....

I'm guessing you're a govt worker......with a nice fat pension, am I right?

 

[koalabear]

mercMORON readies three more posts.....

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[Beco]

The storm of outright lies about the sequester doesn't seem to have fazed his undying devotion to Obama's every word. He's the victim of terminal sycophancy.

As the latest Benghazi news comes out that Libya warned the White House an attack was coming....

 

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[KyleW]

I saw this on an episode of the X-Files