The John Mason Talk-Walk, March 13, 2026

I discuss the Pentagon spending on luxury items, and of the human cost of the war with Iran. 

Transcript

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Hello, hello, hello, John Mason. How is everybody? Hope you're all well and considering everything. You always know how Republicans, conservatives have always whined about excessive government spending. When the target is spending on people like food stamps and Medicare, Medicaid, spending on people. And always always generalizes that all government spending is bad. And I agree the public's money must be held held in account. But but it's always aimed at at uh programs that benefit uh the people, like I said, on education, health. And those are see the those the line about spending is merely an excuse, a cover. Uh to uh attack these programs. Cut them I cut spending on them so low they don't exist. They won't be satisfied until they're wiped out altogether. And they they whine about uh deficits when when it's a democrat in the White House. But when a Republican uh is in the White House and and they rub a deficit, no big deal. No baby. Which leads me to reports have been circulating about how how the Department of Weird uh war uh defense under Pig Heg Hegzith is is handling the the money supposedly for the defense of our country. Now in in September of last year, they sp uh the Pentagon spent uh 93.4 billion dollars on grants and contracts. Now the old saying is lose it use it or lose it. Like if they don't use up uh all the m if a department doesn't use up all the all the money it that has been allocated to them by by the new uh fiscal year, it they don't get anything anything in that new fiscal year. And and while they and while uh they whine about uh spending too much on Medicaid or Medicare or in schools Guess what guess what uh the Pentagon purchased under Mr. P. Collinsbreath. Such luxury item items as sixty thousand some chairs uh from the high-end furniture store Herman Miller$12,540 on three-tiered fruit stands from how do they define fruit stands anyway? Two million on Alaska King Crab while the troops that feel it got choked down MREs. Six point nine million on lobster tail and those two are are the most high-end foods you can find. Fifteen point one million dollars on ribeye steak, yum, one million on salmon, one hundred about one hundred and thirty nine thousand on donuts. Is there enough coffee to go around? On IT equipment like from Apple and Samsung, like telecommunications, laptops, cell phones, all that. And around$98,000 for a Steinway grand piano for the Air Force Chief of Staff. Next time the Republican whines about controlling spending or spending is out of control. Bring that up. And it's talk about spending. We're losing human we're losing lives of our young men and women in military service and in Trump's silly stupid ass war on Iraq. I I despise the theocr theocratic regime dictatorship of the Ayatollahs. But by n but in uh but in attacking uh Khmene, the supreme Ayatollah, they s they simply elected a new Ayatollah, a grand Ayatollah, which is the son of Khamenei. Which means it was all for nothing. And Trump is trying to find an excuse as to why he did it. And we have to cut the war short. The war can't last. Our troops are getting killed, innocent civilians are getting killed, and the and the regime, instead of collapsing, is standing is still holding out. However, the the people of Iran have been making a good stand, doing great work challenging the regime of the Ayatollahs. And I commend them, I salute them. But regime change has to come from the people of Iran. The United States can't just parachute a new president in. The Iranian people have to do the job. I have every faith that they can. So okay. So another reason to vote, to challenge this regime with its own theocrats. On May 19th, that's Pennsylvania Primary Election Day. 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