Holiday Bonuses

Santa Clause came early and often last month for firms engaged in the manufacture and upgrading of Naval weapons. As you read about the contract “awards” – yes, awards – given out during this past Christmas season, remember that on the 28th of December, 1.3 million of our poverty-stricken citizens had their $ 1,166 monthly subsistence cut off by Washington’s elite.

“Belt-tightening” and “budget balancing” they like to call it down there, and it amounts to a “savings” of $ 1,515,800,000 every month. The thinking was that the down-trodden among us should logically be the ones to bite the bullet. After all, they’ve been on the dole for far too many years. Somebody has to “take one for the team”, y’ know.

Take a look at the Naval contractors who had their Christmas stockings filled to overflowing.

Dec. 2nd CASS Holdings LLC, Oklahoma City, OK $ 34,000,000
Austal USA LLC, Mobile, AL $ 8,247,342

Dec. 3rd General Dynamics, Bath, ME $ 73,913,646
L-3 Communication Systems, Salt Lake City, UT $ 22,921,771

Dec. 4th Maersk Line Ltd., Norfolk, VA $ 14,223,440
CDM Federal Programs, Fairfax, VA $ 10,730,846
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, MO $ 8,481,104

Dec. 5th Jacobs Technology Inc., Fort Walton Beach, FL $ 11,341,989

Dec. 6th Lockheed Martin, Mitchell Field, NY $ 114,236,770
BAE Systems, Rockville, MD $ 171,358,761
Huntington Ingalls Industries, Pascagoula, MS $ 39,051,995
Bell-Boeing Joint Project, Amarillo, TX $ 15,597,818

Dec 9th Raytheon Co., Tucson, AZ $ 35,019,637
Raytheon Co., Sudbury, MA $ 29,521,981
Sechen Electronics, Inc., Lititz, PA $ 17,212,201
Air Cruisers Co., LLC, Township, NJ $ 16,970,294

Dec. 11th Interstate Electronics Corp., Anaheim, CA $ 177,254,512
EMCOR Government Services, Arlington, VA $ 198,088,060

Dec. 12th The Boeing Co., St. Louis, MO $ 872,766,714
Northrop Grumman Systems, Sunnyvale, CA $ 220,288,791
Science Applications, McLean, VA $ 10,037,074
Simmonds Precision Products, Vergennes, VT $ 7,945,029

Dec. 13th Lockheed Martin Corp., Manassas, VA $ 124,531,317
General Dynamics, Pittsfield, MA $ 217,685,976
Lockheed Martin, Liverpool, NY $ 92,476,516
Science Applications, McLean, VA $ 14,425,908
Northrop Grumman Systems, Bethpage, NY $ 11,764,551
Southeast Aerospace, Melbourne, FL $ 16,568,406

Dec. 16th SEDNA Digital Solutions, Manassas, VA $ 11,797,558
Northrop Grumman Systems, Herndon, VA $ 31,498,929

Dec. 17th JCON Group, Miami, FL $ 95,000,000
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, MO $ 70,032,166
Watts Contract, Honolulu, HI $ 58,999,995
Lockheed Martin Corp., Orlando, FL $ 33,996,000
Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, AZ $ 16,331,483

Dec. 18th DZSP 21 LLC, Philadelphia, PA $ 799,295,163
Turner Construction Co., Washington, D.C. $ 41,407,500
S.S. Dannaway and Assoc., Honolulu, HI $ 10,000,000

Dec. 19th Lockheed Martin Corp., Orlando, FL $ 103,865,047
Lockheed Martin Corp., Archbald, PA $ 84,500,000
Lockheed Martin Corp., Sunnyvale, CA $ 61,092,053
Raytheon Co., Fullerton, CA $ 55,150,107
Teledyne Microwave Solutions, Rancho Cordova, CA $ 49,152,320
Raytheon Co., San Diego, CA $ 41,585,979
EDO Corp. Defense System, North Amityville, NY $ 39,041,621
Lockheed Martin Corp., Moorestown, NJ $ 37,089,582
Bell Helicopter Textron, Fort Worth, TX $ 11,163,306
Heil Trailer International Co., Gatesville, TX $ 10,554,590
Northrop Grumman Corp., Woodland Hills, CA $ 10,551,915
Intergraph Government Solutions, Madison, AL $ 15,347,323

Dec 20th J. Walter Thompson, Atlanta, GA $ 170,000,000
Electric Boat Corp., Groton, CT $ 121,847,000
Raytheon Co., Tucson, AZ $ 80,474,905
Nova Group, Inc., Napa, CA $ 52,364,400
AMSEC LLC, Virginia Beach, VA $ 45,779,743
BAE Systems, Mobile, AL $ 42,499,988
Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME $ 23,124,445
General Dynamics, San Diego, CA $ 21,400,000
Sikorsky Aerospace, Stratford, CT $ 18,298,546
Raytheon Systems, Largo, FL $ 12,921,937
Lockheed Martin Corp., Manassas, VA $ 83,502,467
Northrop Grumman Systems, Linthicum Heights, MD $ 10,500,000
A&D GC Inc., Santee, CA $ 9,650,000
Raytheon Co., McKinney, TX $ 8,977,748
General Electric Aviation, Lynn, MA $ 7,760,214
General Electric Aviation, Lynn, MA $ 7,500,074

Dec 23rd BAE Systems, Rockville, MD $ 48,860,666
Lockheed Martin Systems, Moorestown, NJ $ 37,133,082
Defense Support Services LLC, Mount Laurel, NJ $ 24,903,892
Lockheed Martin Corp., Baltimore, MD $ 23,275,441
Austal USA LLC, Mobile, AL $ 14,057,992
EDO Corp., Panama City, FL $ 53,877,327
Marine Hydraulics International, Norfolk, VA $ 11,559,768
3 Phoenix Inc., Chantilly, VA $ 10,576,352
Northrop Grumman Services, Herndon, VA $ 9,531,889
Bell Boeing Joint Project, Amarillo, TX $ 8,991,254
Hornbeck Offshore Services, Covington, LA $ 8,080,209
General Dynamics, Bath, ME $ 7,684,132
The Boeing Co., Seattle, WA $ 6,781,461

Dec. 26th General Dynamics, Norfolk, VA $ 171,961,941
The Boeing Co., Oklahoma City, OK $ 43,200,000
Sensor and Antenna Systems, Lansdale, PA $ 21,804,323
Lockheed Martin Corp., Marietta, GA $ 11,060,208
Raytheon Services, Norfolk, VA $ 8,496,327

Dec. 27th Lockheed Martin Systems, Moorestown, NJ $ 574,538,664
Lockheed Martin Corp., Manassas, VA $ 84,650,745
Raytheon Services, Indianapolis, IN $ 40,911,284
T. B. Penick & Sons, Inc., San Diego, CA $ 18,723,488
BAE Systems, Greenlawn, NY $ 16,472,873

Dec. 30th United Technologies Corp., East Hartford, CT $ 167,030,588
Raytheon Co., McKinney, TX $ 69,198,968
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, MO $ 46,652,880
Forward Slope, San Diego, CA $ 47,851,366
Harmonia Holdings Group, Blacksburg, VA $ 44,913,925
Moebius, San Diego, CA $ 40,331,599
ISPA Technology, Alexandria, VA $ 39,912,645
G2 Software Systems, San Diego, CA $ 38,650,655
The Boeing Co., St. Louis, MO $ 22,218,372
Geocent*, Metairie, LA $ 36,444,193
BAE Systems, Greenlawn, NY $ 12,835,546
IAP World Services, Cape Canaveral, FL $ 63,595,731
Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX $ 11,151,506

Add it all up. It cost the taxpayers of this country $ 6,928,637,745 in the month of December for the needs of the Navy. But it doesn’t all end there. That $ 6.9 billion “awarded” for Naval development was chicken feed.

In November we checked out the “awards” given to the Army, the Air Force, the Defense Logistics Agency, the Missile Defense Agency, the U.S. Transportation Command, the Special Operations Command and Washington’s Headquarters Services. Those giveaways – and who knows where the money really ended up – added up to a cool $ 14,686,597,301, and including the Navy’s numbers, $ 8,846,850,688, “the staggering monthly cost to taxpayers” came to $ 23,533,447,090.

But here’s a rundown of what Santa Clause put under the December Christmas trees of those “defending our shores”, as they like to say.

The Army $ 4,583,316,208
The Air Force $ 4,817,022,517
The Defense Logistics Agency $ 7,471,471,715
The Missile Defense Agency $ 199,910,781
The U.S. Transportation Command $ 246,838,438
The Washington Headquarters Services $ 6,042,234

… and a few new ones;

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency $ 4,000,000,000
The Defense Advanced Research Agency $ 19,323,457
The Defense Information Systems Agency $ 11,071,650

When you add up what the taxpayers had to pay for those gifts it makes you wonder what the so-called “belt-tightening” was all about. We – the taxpayers – had to pay out $ 21,355,897,000 for those “awards” last month, and when you add the Navy’s December “needs” of $ 6,928,637,745 to that figure, the total of $ 28,284,534,745 makes one cringe. We could afford to throw away an admitted $ 28,284,534,745 last month to kill innocent people in foreign countries but we can’t afford to spend $ 1,515,800,000 to feed innocent Americans? And we’re not getting the whole scoop. For example, just yesterday, January 8th, a reporter discovered that $ 400,000,000 was awarded – on the QT – to Iridium Airtime Services, back on October 21st – an “award” arranged during the phoney October “shutdown”, no doubt. What else is spent under the table, one might ask.

Bear in mind that we also paid out $ 23,533,447,989 in November, but we can’t afford to pay 1,300,000 desperate Americans a measly $ 1,166 for food, rent, warm clothing and other necessities.

Here’s where the rub comes in. If we’re paying out about $ 25 billion each month for war-making, but we’re in dire economic straits because more than 40 million Americans can’t find gainful employment, what benefits are we getting from those manufacturers who are pushing out items for our nation’s “defense”? Not a single one. That monthly $ 25 billion translates into an annual $ 300 billion – and that’s more than enough to establish an Emergency Shipbuilding Program, like the one that provided 40 million jobs and terminated the Great Depression of the 1930s. We’re being had.