That is the number of hollow point bullets the Social Security Administration purchased last week.
You may be wondering what part of delivering social security checks to grandma involves hundreds of thousands of rounds of deadly ammunition. This ammo purchase resupplies the stockpiles for the federal governments too numerous to count law enforcement agencies.
Agencies you never would have known existed, let alone have a need for an armed police force, are piling up ammo to enforce laws youve probably never heard of. Our government is so big and intrudes into so many areas of our lives that it requires a domestic law enforcement apparatus that consumes hundreds of thousands of rounds per year just to keep its agents firearms qualified.
This ammo isnt even being used to fight crime! These ammo purchases are symptoms of a bloated government whose bureaucratic tentacles wrap themselves around nearly every decision we make. And that needs to change starting with the election this November. Thats why I am emailing you today. You see, the national election has been transformed into a referendum on the size and scope of government. Ill give you a link to help elect conservatives dedicated to restraining government to its Constitutional powers and balancing the budget in a minute, but first let me describe my plan. The Republicans only path to victory is to embrace our conservative values.
That is why I have proposed a budget that reflects your values and will restore prosperity to America. My budget: ** ELIMINATE four cabinet agencies. ** CUT most domestic spending back to 2008, pre-stimulus levels. ** FIX the defense sequester. ** ENACT meaningful welfare and medicaid reform. ** TEAR UP the old tax code and replace it with a Flat Tax. ** Disarms agencies other than the FBI and those whose mission is truly law enforcement. I received a vote on this budget earlier this year, but with Harry Reid in charge of the Senate, it was voted down. But thats ok. You and I now have the ammunition to insert RANDPAC into competitive races across the country to highlight those candidates who truly stand for balancing the budget and which ones think $16 trillion in debt is just a good start. And RANDPACs endorsed candidate roster includes candidates in races in key states like Florida, Minnesota and Texas. Harry Reid can be toppled as majority leader. And President Obama can be thrown out of office. But that is only possible with your support.
You see, the balance of power in the Senate hinges on conservative candidates having the resources necessary to fight back against the liberal smear machine. You see it at the national level. But I can tell you from first-hand experience, the Left will stoop to the lowest of the lows in state races because they believe no one is paying attention. And the liberals have all the Big Labor and Hollywood money they desire to heap on the heads of conservative candidates. Its my goal to elect conservatives to Congress who will pass my budget and a President who will sign it into law.
P.S. The Social Security Administration just purchased 174,000 rounds of ammunition so federal agencies you never knew existed could qualify its officers to enforce laws you had no clue were on the books. This is a symptom of a government that is hopelessly out-of-control and needs to be reined in to its constitutionally enumerated powers.
Three-and-a-half year old Hunter Spanjer, who is deaf, signs his name by crossing his forefinger and index finger and moving his hand up and down.
To his family, friends and those who know the Signing Exact English (S.E.E.) language that the Grand Island, Neb., boy uses, that gesture uniquely means "Hunter Spanjer."
But to Hunter's school district, it might mean something else. The district claims that it violates a rule that forbids anything in the school that looks like a weapon, reports KOLN-TV.
And Hunter's parents claim that Grand Island Pubic Schools administrators have asked them to change their son's sign language name.
"Anybody that I have talked to thinks this is absolutely ridiculous," Hunter's grandmother Janet Logue told the TV station. "This is not threatening in any way."
Hunter's father Brian Spanjer said, "It's a symbol. It's an actual sign, a registered sign, through S.E.E."
The family told KOLN that lawyers from the National Association of the Deaf may push for Hunter's right to sign his name at the school.
Jack Sheard, Grand Island Public Schools spokesperson told KOLN, "We are working with the parents to come to the best solution we can for the child."
One Grand Island resident said she disagrees with the school.
"I find it very difficult to believe that the sign language that shows his name resembles a gun in any way would even enter a child's mind," Fredda Bartenbach said in the news report.
