I guess the point I’m trying to make is every dollar taken from the military isn’t taken from the troops in combat. There’s a hell of a lot of fat that could be trimmed and that little bit is a HUGE amount to other programs.

I believe @nelson meant the combination of names being similar to “A damn driver” which could be embodied by someone who is not paying attention.

You don’t know your own blood type but you know who discovered them...

@guest_ My apologies. It was actually @popsy who asked and in a completely different comment thread for this post. I really nailed it on this one. ;)
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@popsy, if you want to back up a little bit on this thread your answer is there.

I try not to drive in the area unless I have to. This isn’t political corruption it’s a natural occurrence in an organization that is highly cash flow positive. They don’t bother with the checks and balances for purchasing that you would expect because they don’t care. To be clear the people not bothering are “the troops.” If you cut funding by 5% the lack of fiscal accountability will likely be reduced before anyone is denied training or body armor.

@guest_ I haven’t served in the military though I have family that has. More importantly I live close enough to Washington DC to understand that military spending isn’t just training and equipping troops. I know people who make loads of money selling telecommunications equipment to the military. They can basically sell them stuff they don’t need (as in not compatible with what they have) and don’t have to worry about it because the military will just let it rot in a warehouse and not bother trying to get their money back because a $100 million here or there really isn’t significant for them.

He hasn’t been on FS in two years. This is a bot post. Seems the bot has a star now.

The ones under the University apparently.

Really? No cuts at all? The largest Air Force in the world is the USAF. The second largest is the US Navy. That sounds like we probably have a bit more than is necessary to get the job done. A small reduction of 3-5% would be a huge amount of money to use on other programs given the relative size of the defense budget.

360 posts and 4 comments?

I was talking about the hashtag not the movement that sprang from the controversy over it.

The More You Know...

So buy meth but not crank? Aren’t they the same thing.

This isn’t about Subarus?

Not to guest_ it up but there’s another example. White people took #BlackLivesMatter as a message telling them something they already knew and didn’t need to be pointed out. In fact BLM wasn’t really meant to communicate with them. It was to remind other Black people that they matter.

I think there is an underlying misunderstanding with minority and majority groups about what the issue truly is. A minority says “hey you guys have your special club which is racist” so the majority people say “ok, we will make you a member of the club” and the minority doesn’t understand the resection because what they want isn’t membership, its the elimination of the club.
Yes, that’s an oversimplification but it’s just supposed to demonstrate two different ways of looking at the same thing.

I wonder if the ratio would closer to 50/50 if you counted all of Tyler Perry’s roles separately.

He also met with Andy Kaufman’s daughter who was to young to know him. He stayed in character and she said it was the only time she really felt close to her father. Method acting has its upsides as well.

What’s not safe for work? The word dick?

Perhaps. I’m just reporting first hand observation and facts. No fake media here.