Congress seeks to ban salutes to the military at NFL games

[Michchamp]

Surprise... the amendment was sponsored by AZ's senators, both of whom are Republitards (McCain and Flake). Link.

“At a time of crippling budget cuts under sequestration, the Defense Department can’t afford to waste its limited resources for the benefit of sports leagues that rake in billions of dollars a year,” John McCain said on the Senate floor.

“When some teams are accepting money to do what has been termed ‘paid-for-patriotism,’ then it cheapens all the other good work that is done by these sports teams and others,” said Flake, who has asked the Pentagon for a full accounting of the money it has spent on such promotions and what benefits accrued from them.
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good. I'm fucking sick of them myself.

 

[sggatecl]

More fucked up priorities.

 

[paultigerfan68]

Surprise... the amendment was sponsored by AZ's senators, both of whom are Republitards (McCain and Flake). Link.

?At a time of crippling budget cuts under sequestration, the Defense Department can?t afford to waste its limited resources for the benefit of sports leagues that rake in billions of dollars a year,? John McCain said on the Senate floor.

?When some teams are accepting money to do what has been termed ?paid-for-patriotism,? then it cheapens all the other good work that is done by these sports teams and others,? said Flake, who has asked the Pentagon for a full accounting of the money it has spent on such promotions and what benefits accrued from them.
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good. I'm fucking sick of them myself.

They should concentrate more on making the top 1 % pay their fare share and keep their nose out of sports.