We can't trust any of them

[whell]

Of course we need to allocate funds intelligently in the fight against terrorism. Yet, here is our brain - dead congress insisting (in a bi-partisan manner) that we allocate those dollars to build...tanks???

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories...04-28-08-58-08

"If we had our choice, we would use that money in a different way," Gen. Ray Odierno, the Army's chief of staff, told The Associated Press this past week.

The rationale?

Congressional backers of the Abrams upgrades view the vast network of companies, many of them small businesses, that manufacture the tanks' materials and parts as a critical asset that has to be preserved. The money, they say, is a modest investment that will keep important tooling and manufacturing skills from being lost if the Abrams line were to be shut down.

While the logic on some level - a very low level - makes sense, surely there are other ways to protect the manufacturing base other than spending taxpayer dollars building a product no one wants.