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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 2440973" data-attributes="member: 229">I&#039;m starting to think the reason that all of this Military specialty equipment is ending up in the hands of police departments is not the militarization of our Police forces, but a way for the Feds to make back some of this money they&#039;re bleeding.&nbsp; A $730,000 MRAP sitting in a National Guard Motor Pool parking lot isn&#039;t making the federal government any money (and there aren&#039;t a lot of local PDs that are willing to fork over even $100,000 for an MRAP when they&#039;ve got other stuff to worry about).But if you offer the super-one-time-bargain of $2500 per MRAP, you can sell a bunch of &#039;em... and the Federal government probably has a crapload of this stuff sitting around not killing anybody, so why not wave that deal that&#039;s too good to be true to the states/local governments and make a little money at the same time?Then when the states/locals figure out they don&#039;t need to kill more people than the federal government does, they&#039;ll sell them at auction to the public for probably between $5k and $30k.&nbsp; So somebody here will get a sweet deal on an MRAP for a pittance, the states/locals will have made money off of the Feds, and some company get&#039;s $730,000 to make these all day long.Everybody wins, right!?!?Just like Obamacare!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 2440973, member: 229"] I'm starting to think the reason that all of this Military specialty equipment is ending up in the hands of police departments is not the militarization of our Police forces, but a way for the Feds to make back some of this money they're bleeding. A $730,000 MRAP sitting in a National Guard Motor Pool parking lot isn't making the federal government any money (and there aren't a lot of local PDs that are willing to fork over even $100,000 for an MRAP when they've got other stuff to worry about). But if you offer the super-one-time-bargain of $2500 per MRAP, you can sell a bunch of 'em... and the Federal government probably has a crapload of this stuff sitting around not killing anybody, so why not wave that deal that's too good to be true to the states/local governments and make a little money at the same time? Then when the states/locals figure out they don't need to kill more people than the federal government does, they'll sell them at auction to the public for probably between $5k and $30k. So somebody here will get a sweet deal on an MRAP for a pittance, the states/locals will have made money off of the Feds, and some company get's $730,000 to make these all day long. Everybody wins, right!?!? Just like Obamacare! [/QUOTE]

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