HeloDude

Was VA care not adequate in 2019?

If that makes you feel better to say, then feel free to say it again.

Why would I have wanted to be a government civilian after doing 20+ years in the military? I already had to work with them once lol. To be fair, I supervised a few awesome government civilians. When it came to the others, many were average, and quite a few I would have loved to have had them quit. I have little doubt this task would take any of the awesome/average civilians more than 15 minutes. Again, SecDef is requiring it, so it’s most definitely now being required by the boss. Side note—the ones who were average at best were always the ones asking about time off awards and the “60 minute rule”.

So it’s “busy work” but you can’t tell me how long you think it will or should take? And I’m pretty sure the SecDef just directed it, did he not?

How long do you think this would (or should) take the average DoD civilian?

Nah, just pointing out bias in the highest order. It would be no different if I posted a Breitbart article being negative towards Biden. But if you don’t think The Atlantic is severely biased against Trump then we’ll just have to agree to disagree.

You lost me when you posted The Atlantic…you’d be hard pressed to find three (if any) positive articles they’ve written about Trump over the last 2 years.

No, I’m referring to giving Ukraine all the money we would have given them if we stop?

I’m against us paying for it…most definitely. If you’re no longer in the military, are you also against a nation fighting off an invasion if you don’t go there yourself and fight with them? If not, then why not?

So if European countries don’t pick up the tab, is it because they’re pro-Putin? Honest question.

What’s embarrassing is the hundreds of billions of dollars (that we’ve taken on as debt) that we’ve given to support their cause.

I wonder how AA will do in the next several years? Asking since they didn’t so great with airline travel booming the last couple years and, if I’m a betting man, we see a little bit of a slow down in the next couple of years.

If the Trump/GOP don’t lower the deficit then it was all a joke. I get how they want to “increase spending at a lower rate” compared to the Dems, but this is the same nonsense they (the GOP) have done before. If someone wants to know where I stand, look at what Massie says and I’m sure I’m close to his position.

Well, last fall they publicly said they would hire 2K in 2025, then around the holidays it was said closer to 1500, then I think at the latest conference people were hearing closer to 1K-1.2K. Delta also went from around 1K, to 700-800, to a little over 500. BL: It’s not going to be some hiring boom year. If AA is going to pause new hire classes after a week, then those with original class dates afterwards will probably find out in the next 1-2 weeks, so we’ll know soon.

Nice try at a save lol.

I never got a Covid stimulus check…but nice try.

Did you voluntarily return your tax cut under Trump to pay to reduce the debt? If you didn’t, then why not?

Best news I’ve heard all day!

Perhaps, wait for it…Europe could defend…Europe. This is not the late 1940s after much of Europe was destroyed during WW2 and we were wanting to hold back communism. Germany is one of the strongest economies in the world, but yet they “can’t” defend themselves and the neighbors?…no, the reality is that they would rather spend their money elsewhere. We’ve been the fool for far too long and spending anything less than what we’re currently doing is a step in the right direction.

This from a nav…

You lost me at “income inequality”…it’s called life, and some people are just better at it than others. Sorry, but if you’re a progressive who believe in more social programs than less, then you’re right, we’re definitely not going to agree on much.

The problem with socialism is the eventually you run out do other people’s money. We already have a very progressive tax system and yet we’re extremely in debt…but sure, let’s just do more of it. And have you seen the average American today?—yeah, not what I would call a model example of thriving society.

Again, we have too much welfare and federal spending as it is…and the poorest don’t pay federal income taxes, and if they work, they actually get paid by the IRS, so don’t give me the “poor pay too much in federal income taxes” BS. Compare apples to apples and tell me what percentage of revenue received from federal income taxes are paid by the top 20% of earners vs the bottom half of earners. You’re just for more social programs, paid by higher earners, and I am for less.

You didn’t say anything abut debt, you originally were taking a hit giving/taking from people based on their income/wealth. As for the debt, yep, I’m all for reducing it as much as possible by reducing spending. We have a spending problem, not a tax problem.