TreeA10
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I can't believe you're serious. What idiot actually thinks you can borrow without consequence? I assume you think it is not real money borrowed from real people who at some point will actually want their money back. The worse part of all this is the money will have to be paid back by people not old enough to vote right now and their children. Possibly more generations than that. The UK paid off the WWII loans made by the US in 2006. In the interim, we used that loan to influence their foreign policy, IIRC. Not a position you want to be in if it can be avoided.
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Let's see....the President submitted a budget nobody in his OWN party voted for. The Senate has not passed a budget now in three years. The budget submitted by the Republicans has not even been taken up for debate in the Senate. It the mean time, we have a continuing resolution that allows the budget to continue to grow under baseline budgeting rules where a decrease in the amount of growth is deemed a cut. We have $80+ trillion of spending liabilities and you guys are discussing rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
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Looking at that thing, I wonder where the tail hook is going to go? The F-35C is not trapping due to the spacing between the mains and the hook and it looks like the UCAV has a much smaller fuselage/wheelbase for attachment. Guess we'll see.
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Dump 8% of our debt on the market at bargain rates and see what happens to the remaining 92%.
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We have spent Trillions since President Johnson declared the War on Poverty and levels of poverty have pretty much remained the same since 1973. In the meantime, the definition of poverty has changed: https://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/poverty_like_we_ve_never_seen_it_1Tm0h9YpmVsEc2gHYm6DaN. I'm debating whether to cancel my satellite TV to save money and 2/3's of those "In poverty" have that or cable. WTF? Trying to achieve equality of outcome is just not going to happen no matter how many more trillions we throw at it because some people are quite content with doing nothing if the free benefits return a level of comfort they are satisfied with.
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From the WSJ, an interesting look at the much deeper problem regarding our debt. https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323353204578127374039087636.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop
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Solving this problem certainly is due to the complexity of the tax code. Currently, we have 73,608 pages of tax code as of April 12th. Surely, we do not need this many. I figure 71,000, maybe 72,000 max.
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While you are considering benefits, for those of you that entered active duty in Texas and served on active duty after 9/11, i.e. Lackland, etc., you may be eligible for benefits under the Hazlewood Act ( https://www.tvc.texas.gov/Hazlewood-Act.aspx ) passed by the State of Texas. It is 150 hours worth of tuition at a state University and can be transferred to your kids.
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Add a pregnancy, get them all on the same stage, and we would have a program that would make Jerry Springer jealous.
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It's called GPS.
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I was enjoying a Sam Adams Whitewater IPA until you mentioned the Sierra Nevada. Suddenly, my beer isn't as cold or as tasty as I would like. Damn.
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I worked for a little while tasking units for Operation Noble Eagle, there were, and still are, scenarios that a VID at night or extended range would have been a nice capability to have.
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Dad is a retired CMSgt, mom was a WAF. I'm the first to fly. Wanted to be a piano player in a whorehouse.
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If some idiotic weather/news reporter does not ACTUALLY stand outside, will we believe that the hurricane is not really windy and rainy and they are just making this $hit up?
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Did the T38 IP thing a long time ago and had many former Army helo drivers. Never had a complaint, they had their feces co-located and kept the big picture while having a good time. Or at least as good a time as can be had given the situation. Read and heed the advice from previous posters and good luck.
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From the album: Aircraft photos
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Just finished To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian by Stephen Ambrose. It contains his personal stories and opinions about the people he met or studied as he wrote their histories. Some were chance meetings. He was leading a tour of the Normandy beaches and happened to come across an elderly British gentleman. Turns out, this guy was the lead glider pilot flying the troops assigned to take the bridge at Caen. Most of the book is about people he was involved with very heavily. So, lots of stuff about Eisenhower, T. Roosevelt, E Company, Nixon, the Vietnam War, the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima, and the WWII Museum in New Orleans.
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Unofficial spokesperson explaining the seat debacle.
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Fat girl defensive maneuver....jink, chaff, twinkies
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