From what I have been able to tell, via the internet, a fully-equipped military Humvee costs the taxpayer approximately $150,000, which according to anyone's notion, AIN'T cheap. Yes, when you consider the value they are to our military, then the cost is justified, especially if they REALLY do save the lives our soldiers. Anyway, I was driving along, on my way to my office the other day, when I came upon quite a sight—roughly 75 (maybe more) of these things, loaded onto rail cars, patiently waiting to be shipped somewhere—probably Iraq or Afghanistan or Pakistan. If my calculations are correct, I saw $11,250,000 worth of Humvees, unattended, and sitting on railcars, in North Macon! (See the attached pictures! ) Anyway, as I walked alongside the track, looking over these machines, I couldn't help but wonder how many of them would one day, soon, carry some young soldier to his death, as he/she valiantly worked to protect our freedom, while our politicians sit at their walnut desks, trying to find another way to pad their already-too-fat pocketbooks, at the expense of our freedom.
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