National Guard: $26 million--ZERO Recruits

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Odessa78

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McCollum: National Guard’s $26 million Sponsoring NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt Jr. Results in ZERO Recruits


Today, Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) expressed her outrage and disbelief at the level of waste in the National Guard’s recruitment budget.

In 2012, the National Guard is spending $26.5 million to sponsor Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s #88 car in NASCAR races for the purposes of recruitment. Over the past five years Earnhardt’s racing team has received over $136 million in taxpayer funds from the National Guard – making him the highest paid military contractor in professional sports.

Total Cost of National Guard Sponsorship of Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s #88 Car

Fiscal Year 2008: $18.12 million

Fiscal Year 2009: $27.35 million

Fiscal Year 2010: $35.27 million

Fiscal Year 2011: $28.86 million

Fiscal Year 2012: $26.54 million

5 Year Total: $136.14 million

Today, an online USA Today story by Dustin Long cites the National Guard’s contracts manager for recruitment, Maj. Brian Creech, explaining the effectiveness of this taxpayer investment in military recruiting.

“In fiscal year 2012, the National Guard has been contacted by more than 24,800 individuals interested in joining because of the race sponsorship. Of those, Creech said 20 were qualified candidates and that none joined,” according to the USA Today story.

That’s right, ZERO RECRUITS JOINED. The National Guard spent $26.5 million for ZERO recruits.

“The Pentagon’s NASCAR sponsorship program is an outrageous waste of taxpayer money and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta should terminate these sponsorship programs immediately. Spending $26 million on a NASCAR racing team – in the name of national security – for zero recruits tells me the Pentagon can painlessly absorb some serious budget cuts,” McCollum said.

“This Pentagon failure is particularly outrageous in light of the fact that last week House Republicans voted to kick 200,000 low-income kids out of the school lunch program and eliminate funding for “Meals on Wheels” for home-bound seniors in order to add $55 billion to the defense budget.”

Yesterday, an amendment to stop funding Pentagon sponsorship of NASCAR and other professional sports was offered by Rep. McCollum and Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) to fiscal year 2013 Defense appropriations bill. The amendment passed on a voice vote and will now go to the House floor as part of the $608 billion defense spending bill.

Congresswoman Betty McCollum serves on the House Appropriations and Budget Committees.

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JoeRider

JoeRider

Federalist Live Forever
Odessa78 said:
McCollum: National Guard’s $26 million Sponsoring NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt Jr. Results in ZERO Recruits


Today, Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) expressed her outrage and disbelief at the level of waste in the National Guard’s recruitment budget.

In 2012, the National Guard is spending $26.5 million to sponsor Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s #88 car in NASCAR races for the purposes of recruitment. Over the past five years Earnhardt’s racing team has received over $136 million in taxpayer funds from the National Guard – making him the highest paid military contractor in professional sports.

Total Cost of National Guard Sponsorship of Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s #88 Car

Fiscal Year 2008: $18.12 million

Fiscal Year 2009: $27.35 million

Fiscal Year 2010: $35.27 million

Fiscal Year 2011: $28.86 million

Fiscal Year 2012: $26.54 million

5 Year Total: $136.14 million

Today, an online USA Today story by Dustin Long cites the National Guard’s contracts manager for recruitment, Maj. Brian Creech, explaining the effectiveness of this taxpayer investment in military recruiting.

“In fiscal year 2012, the National Guard has been contacted by more than 24,800 individuals interested in joining because of the race sponsorship. Of those, Creech said 20 were qualified candidates and that none joined,” according to the USA Today story.

That’s right, ZERO RECRUITS JOINED. The National Guard spent $26.5 million for ZERO recruits.

“The Pentagon’s NASCAR sponsorship program is an outrageous waste of taxpayer money and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta should terminate these sponsorship programs immediately. Spending $26 million on a NASCAR racing team – in the name of national security – for zero recruits tells me the Pentagon can painlessly absorb some serious budget cuts,” McCollum said.

“This Pentagon failure is particularly outrageous in light of the fact that last week House Republicans voted to kick 200,000 low-income kids out of the school lunch program and eliminate funding for “Meals on Wheels” for home-bound seniors in order to add $55 billion to the defense budget.”

Yesterday, an amendment to stop funding Pentagon sponsorship of NASCAR and other professional sports was offered by Rep. McCollum and Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) to fiscal year 2013 Defense appropriations bill. The amendment passed on a voice vote and will now go to the House floor as part of the $608 billion defense spending bill.

Congresswoman Betty McCollum serves on the House Appropriations and Budget Committees.

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At less Al Gore invented the internet. Glad DOD did not have anything to do with it. BTW, how many recruits did the Meals on Wheels program get? Lunch Program?
 
JoeRider

JoeRider

Federalist Live Forever
138 M in tax payers money! That is chicken feed to the 50 B (note with a B) in GM.

The President is running in large part on the bailout’s $30+ billion loss, uber-failed “success.” And the Press is acting as his stenographers. An epitome of this bailout nightmare mess is the electric absurdity that is the Chevrolet Volt. The Press is at every turn covering up - rather than covering - the serial failures of President Obama’s signature vehicle.

The Press has failed to mention at least five Volt fires, myopically focusing on the one the Obama Administration hand-selected for attention

Read more: Media Fail: Chevy Volt Makes NO Money, Costs Taxpayers Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars Per Car | NewsBusters.org
 
Lurk

Lurk

Happy Creepy Ass Cracka
Advertising by the military (in ANY form) is designed to get prospects in the door, not in the service. It is up to the recruiter to screen out unqualified prospects (over 60% of American youth are too fat to join any of the services, many are felons and unfit, some are too stupid, etc.) Without advertising (be it NASCAR sponsorship, brand placement in TRANSFORMER movies, television and videogame advertising) the prospects won't come in the door.

I agree with those who point out the hypocrisy of the liberals. What useful has come from the Trillion$ they waste?
 
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nutz

Well-Known Member
Lurk said:
Advertising by the military (in ANY form) is designed to get prospects in the door, not in the service. It is up to the recruiter to screen out unqualified prospects (over 60% of American youth are too fat to join any of the services, many are felons and unfit, some are too stupid, etc.) Without advertising (be it NASCAR sponsorship, brand placement in TRANSFORMER movies, television and videogame advertising) the prospects won't come in the door.

I agree with those who point out the hypocrisy of the liberals. What useful has come from the Trillion$ they waste?
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Similar to what I posted before, IMO, the gov't. shouldn't be spending money to advertise.
What is probably closer to the truth is that the recruiting programs wants to do less and less "hands-on". They don't want to patronize high schools and colleges, trade fairs, etc. Recruiters have 0 desire to help any cross service people also because those numbers don't count towards their goals.

Military service isn't everyone's cup of tea. With the guard and reserve forces becoming more and more like the "regulars", especially call ups (activation/deployments) the numbers will probably stay low. Right now, the military is stronger than what they need and the overall recruiting requirements are lower. The culling process during times like these are more stringent on prospective recruits.
 
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somdforever

Member
Odessa78 said:
McCollum: National Guard’s $26 million Sponsoring NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt Jr. Results in ZERO Recruits


Today, Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) expressed her outrage and disbelief at the level of waste in the National Guard’s recruitment budget.

In 2012, the National Guard is spending $26.5 million to sponsor Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s #88 car in NASCAR races for the purposes of recruitment. Over the past five years Earnhardt’s racing team has received over $136 million in taxpayer funds from the National Guard – making him the highest paid military contractor in professional sports.

Total Cost of National Guard Sponsorship of Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s #88 Car

Fiscal Year 2008: $18.12 million

Fiscal Year 2009: $27.35 million

Fiscal Year 2010: $35.27 million

Fiscal Year 2011: $28.86 million

Fiscal Year 2012: $26.54 million

5 Year Total: $136.14 million

Today, an online USA Today story by Dustin Long cites the National Guard’s contracts manager for recruitment, Maj. Brian Creech, explaining the effectiveness of this taxpayer investment in military recruiting.

“In fiscal year 2012, the National Guard has been contacted by more than 24,800 individuals interested in joining because of the race sponsorship. Of those, Creech said 20 were qualified candidates and that none joined,” according to the USA Today story.

That’s right, ZERO RECRUITS JOINED. The National Guard spent $26.5 million for ZERO recruits.

“The Pentagon’s NASCAR sponsorship program is an outrageous waste of taxpayer money and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta should terminate these sponsorship programs immediately. Spending $26 million on a NASCAR racing team – in the name of national security – for zero recruits tells me the Pentagon can painlessly absorb some serious budget cuts,” McCollum said.

“This Pentagon failure is particularly outrageous in light of the fact that last week House Republicans voted to kick 200,000 low-income kids out of the school lunch program and eliminate funding for “Meals on Wheels” for home-bound seniors in order to add $55 billion to the defense budget.”

Yesterday, an amendment to stop funding Pentagon sponsorship of NASCAR and other professional sports was offered by Rep. McCollum and Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) to fiscal year 2013 Defense appropriations bill. The amendment passed on a voice vote and will now go to the House floor as part of the $608 billion defense spending bill.

Congresswoman Betty McCollum serves on the House Appropriations and Budget Committees.

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Whatta'ya know: A CongressPerson who finally grew a pair! Now if only the CongressMen could only follow suit. Way to go Congresswoman Betty McCollum! Keep looking and by year's end, you'll find all the billions being wasted on stuff like this.
 
gemma_rae

gemma_rae

Well-Known Member
And here I thought it was Rick Hendrick's car, and Jr just drove it.:confused:

Imagine how stupid I must feel!

:shortbus::shortbus::shortbus::shortbus:
 
itsbob

itsbob

I bowl overhand
Their answers are pure :BS: ..

Like running for office, advertising for ANYTHING is name recognition, and advertising is ALWAYS multi pronged.. Newsprint, Coupons, Radio/TV and sometimes sponsorship.. Normally you can't tell if one form of advertising is better than another, but all together can be VERY effective.

They can use questionairres to see if ONE ad somewhere got a kid to come talk to a recruiter, but generally they are going to anwer the one they either saw the most, OR the one they saw just before coming in.

Saying 26M was wasted because it didn't gain a single recruit is simple :bs:.

The question would be to look at the ENTIRE advertising budget for their recruiting effort, then establish if they did or didn't meet their yearly quota..

If they met the mission quota set by the State and Fed Gov't, than their money was well spent. If they didn't THEN make changes to what they are doing.
 
AnthonyJames

AnthonyJames

R.I.P. My Brother Rick
Sounds like the sponsorship did it's job but the potential recruits, parents, schools and government couldn't hold up their end of the deal.

Milk Cartons! Qualified recruits are missing so put them on Milk Cartons!
 
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