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There is no reason to cancel its just a mtter of organizing the community and getting private sponsors. That is the way most such celbrations are done here now days including Madi Gras. Its a actually incoporationed association who runs and funds with sponsors every year. The day of the taxpayer funding is going away everywhere and has been for years in most areas.
Priorities folks. We're about to welcome 11-20 million undocumented Americans into the fold and May 5 is an important event for the majority of them. Maybe one day they will embrace July 4 just as much as the rest of us citizens do.
It's more important to celebrate an obscure battle Mexico had against the French?
People, including Obama, have a right to celebrate whatever holiday they choose. I don't celebrate St. Pats or Cinco de Mayo, but if you want to go ahead, it's your right.
I've worked at that Fort Bragg event for a few years with a vendor. There are a ***** load of people and a ***** load of vendors and sponsors. Many more family members than soldiers and they bring money and buy tokens that the vendors then have to turn over to the base to collect their earnings. The base collects a percentage of the vendor revenue (I think 20% or close to it). There is no way this event has a significant net cost to the military and if you saw the looks on the young soldier's faces (these are mostly those in boot camp) you would realize the morale boost.
This is just more "highly visible" cuts being SURGICALLY SELECTED to cause the most "outrage" over what amounts to fake cuts in the budget. The 2013 budget is actually STILL higher than last year even with the sequester. Imagine the bickering and whining when REAL cuts have to be made. I'm sure we will see Greece in a hurry.
You're wrong.
You don't see the costs of the logistics, buses, overtime, etc.
You just want what you want.
Why not give up all tuition reimbursement if you want a party instead?
It's discretionary spending.
Don't like it? Pay for your own party, don't re-enlist, don't join the military, have it off-base.
Geez, talk about whining.
How about those 8,000 people who will be having their pay cut, you don't seem to care about them one whit.
You want a party instead.
The military isn't a party and it's not supposed to be welfare.
Priorities folks. We're about to welcome 11-20 million undocumented Americans into the fold and May 5 is an important event for the majority of them. Maybe one day they will embrace July 4 just as much as the rest of us citizens do.
Nah. May 5th will become a national holiday the same as July 4. The difference will be pinatas for everyone!!!!!
I see you are catching on and being oh so politically correct.
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