Feds Lied About Closing Forth Monmouth
By Gordon Bishop (10/03/07)
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld "lied" when he said the cost of moving Fort Monmouth in Eatontown to nearby Aberdeen, Maryland, would be $685 million.
The “real time” cost will be a mammoth $1.9 billion, or more!
The federal government, already bankrupt, just doesn’t happen to have some $2 billion tucked away somewhere in their labyrinthine empire. For that, they’d have to print more money, which will drive up our annual inflation rate.
The 1960 dollar is worth less than a dime today! We, the working class, have lost 90 percent or more of our purchasing power since 1960.
So much for the working class also on the brink of bankruptcy.
So much for federal truth and honesty by our federal officials and bureaucrats, especially in the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).
I, and millions like me, can no longer afford our sloppy, wasteful federal government, which is the largest employer in America.
And look at those federal pensions, compared to the worker-bees in the private sector who are lucky to get half the amount of those slurping from the federal trough, compliments of the struggling, over-burdened employees in the real world of work.
But back to Fort Monmouth, where some 5,000 employees generate billions of dollars of revenue in their high-tech, mostly classified work at this 1,200-acre military post stretched out over three communities – Eatontown, Oceanport and Shrewsbury.
The landmark fort is ranked as one of the nation’s top 10 most valuable military assets.
And the Bush Administration wants to deep-six this critical military operation, which is responsible for all of the communications in America’s Global War on Terror?
Fort Monmouth’s advanced technologies make it possible for all five branches of the Armed Forces to communicate with one another during war and peace on this complex and swiftly changing planet.
It’s all about politics, as usual. The special interests always seem to prevail, not the public interests. We, the taxpayers, make government possible at a rising inflationary rate of more than 3 trillion dollars a year. That’s our money, folks! Not the government’s. We must determine what is necessary and worthwhile in making our government work, not for itself, but for more than 300 million American citizens.
Our founding fathers would be horrified if they lived today to see what’s going on in our State Capitals and federal government! It’s like a giant, crazy horse completely out of control.
As a result, the government’s broke – and so are the working-class taxpayers!
How do we get back our government and save America from bankruptcy?
Simple – and easy! Just vote out the mendacious scoundrels, those elected politicians who created this massive mess. Get rid of them, NOW!
Vote for independent representatives who want to serve you, not the bloated bureaucracies in Washington and their putrid politicians who live like millionaires while paying homage to the Fat Cats, instead of doing a job for the people, by the people, and of the people.
Sadly, the same robotic politicians get re-elected year after year, decade after decade, making America a decadent society with no moral compass to protect the people.
So we now have to deal with the fate and future of Fort Monmouth. Here’s what the federal BRAC Commission did in its analysis of Fort Monmouth:
“After the BRAC Commission found that the recommendation to close Fort Monmouth deviated substantially from six of the eight final criteria and the Force Structure plan, it violated the federal BRAC Act when it did not recommend removal from the closure list,” according to Eugene M. La Vergne, the attorney representing the American Federation of Government Employees, Local 1904, the men and women who work at the fort.
“There were many obvious and glaring errors in the data and reasoning used by the Secretary of Defense in the decision-making process leading to the recommendation to close Fort Monmouth, according to two recognized and distinguished military experts – Vice-Admiral Paul G. Gaffney II (Ret.), chairman of the New Jersey Governor’s Commission, and Robert Giordano, former Director of the Research and Development and Engineering Center, Communications and Electronics Command at Fort Monmouth.”
After analyzing all the information, I believe the Fort Monmouth workers will ultimately win their lawsuit in the federal courts.
(Gordon Bishop is a ‘Who’s Who in the World’ award-winning author, historian, syndicated columnist, and New Jersey’s first “Journalist-of-the-Year”—1986/New Jersey Press Association.)
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