1.2 BILLION DOLLARS for a Jail? Well I'm GLAD they ELIMINATED my VA Benefits and FIRED ME from my GOVERNMENT UNION JOB so they could AFFORD this!
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This is after spending 450m on a tent in Florida that's since been shut down. Turns out we did have the money... It's just not for the people.
Likely 445m of that just went to pockets. The infrastructure shown there was in the thousands, not hundreds of millions.
It's all grift.
It’s not like they need the funds to build it. If it’s anything like the gulag in Florida it’ll be shuddered only months after construction.
Yeah, Big Gubbermint spending large amounts of money to help people? What are you, a pussy?
That money and that Big Gubbermint is for punching down! Merica! It's so grrr-eat now.
That's about 240 million meals for schools and the less fortunate, or a year's rent at the US median for about 50 thousand people or 6% of the unhoused population, or a year's worth of healthcare for over 6,000 people at the median cost (way more than that if it just covered preventative care, which would lower the overall cost of healthcare).
Another Concentration Camp. After 80 years, Americans have successfully replaced "shoot nazis" for "be nazis"
Nazis were greatly inspired by how USians treated blacks in the first place.
And natives and Mexicans not just blacks.
They got eugenics from us too.
And Japanese after Pearl Harbor.
There was a lot of use of concentration camps before WWII, including by Germans and the Brits (and the U.S. when it came to Native Americans).
They've been pretty quiet about this one too. I've hardly heard anything about it
They're not even hiding the corruption anymore.
They see that there are no consequences anymore. They've removed or rendered ineffective any mechanism in the system that could have stopped them.
Remember how the right wing/black helicopter crowd (but I repeat myself) would hyperventilate about "FEMA death camps" in the 90s? How Janet Reno was coming for them and their guns and was going to make their tiny penises shrivel up even more? (Well, maybe they didn't say that very last part, but you know that was a primary concern of theirs when confronting a woman in a position of authority over men.)
Every accusation is a projection with that bunch.
Also, the Alex Jones/second amendment jackasses are showing what utter FRAUDS they have always been about "defending against a tyrannical government". What a fucking load that was and is, and most of us called it back then. They are cheering the tyrannical government on, and some of them cannot wait to take an active role in assisting the tyranny.
[...] was coming for them and their guns
But the government isn't coming for them, it's coming for their neighbours, so it's fine.
"Daddy, are they going to take us away next?"
Fuck, I had almost forgotten that turd of a man. Alex Jones existed because I hadn’t heard from him in a while, thank you for reminding me Asshole still exist.
Every time he pops in the news I get pissed because it means he's got a microphone, and he shouldn't own anything. Sell that microphone on eBay and give it to his victims. He still owes them over a billion dollars.
He should be penniless, homeless, and naked.
A lot of things he pretended to be Very Concerned About (TM) are now happening, or poised to happen.
And all these freedom-fighting , anti-big-gubbermint jackasses are showing what utter frauds they are and always were. If anything, they are busily giving Taco and his thugs reach-arounds.
It's not that serious a mystery.
If you stick people in tents in the desert, they tend to die. And, not a lot of people want to be involved with something like that, and so they're making the point by giving absurd amounts of money to anyone who is willing to be involved. Same as the high salaries for ICE recruits.
Instead, it handed the project on a military base to Acquisition Logistics LLC, a small business that has no listed experience running a correction facility and had never won a federal contract worth more than $16 million. The company also lacks a functioning website and lists as its address a modest home in suburban Virginia owned by a 77-year-old retired Navy flight officer.
The mystery over the award only deepened last week as the new facility began to accept its first detainees. The Pentagon has refused to release the contract or explain why it selected Acquisition Logistics over a dozen other bidders to build the massive tent camp at Fort Bliss in west Texas. At least one competitor has filed a complaint.
At least one competitor has filed a complaint.
“Hey! I wanted to build the desert concentration camp!”
The bidding was open only to small firms such as Acquisition Logistics, which receives preferential status because it’s classified as a veteran and Hispanic-owned small disadvantaged business.
Ken A. Wagner, the president and CEO of Acquisition Logistics, did not respond to phone messages or emails.
Awfully German ass name for this allegedly hispanic-owned business’s Prez/CEO
The Wagner group is also a neo Nazi Russian mercenary force.
Remember "Jade Helm"? Surely those people will be against this too.
Aaannnny day now.
Not a big mystery, really. Corruption and fascism.
I’m not sure there’s a mystery. It’s a racist grift.
You know what they say (in the US): "you can't have too many concentration camps!"