Ravenwood - 08/31/05 06:15 AM
A lot of lefties are taking jabs at the Blue Angels. They claim the air shows are a huge waste of taxpayer dollars. As Neal points out, air show promoters foot the bill. They recoup the cost from air show attendees who walk around between events buying $4 hot dogs and funnel cakes. But even if air show sponsors don't cover the costs of maintaining the planes and training the aviators, so what?
The Blue Angels (and the Air Force Thunderbirds) are a huge recruiting and advertising tool. Staging an air show is similar to producing a TV advertisement or buying print ads. These people who are complaining about the cost of the blue angels are the same people complaining about the military not meeting their recruiting goals.
I don't want to question their patriotism, but it's almost enough to think these lefties are just anti-military.
Wouldn't it be sweet if the Blue Angels would change the missing man formation just once for her to "The Finger" formation?
Posted by: Sgt Fluffy at August 31, 2005 9:26 AMOh yeah wasting money what with these liberal idiots anyway the BLUE ANGELS as well as the THUNDERBIRDS are great to see i mean these wussies are so dumbed down ita pathetic just to think i mean jsu how much money has been wasted by the pork spenders like ROBERT BYRD BRAIN anyway why dont these sniveling whimps start a charity or donate to a chairity instaed of flapping their usless pieholes all the time
Posted by: screaming eagle at September 1, 2005 3:04 PM[This may seem contradictory to my comment above about Iraq WMD, but it's not]
It's bullshit. Our military must have the ability to promote itself via Blue Angels, high school recruiting, Army Eagles jump teams, etc.
Our ability to protect ourselves depends upon it. A volunteer military is generally a motivated military.
Posted by: The Other Mike S at September 2, 2005 7:31 PM(c) Ravenwood and Associates, 1990 - 2014
