By: Roger Moore
@Joey Maloney: Almost right. If you think that GFN can help you achieve a policy goal, you can gratefully allow him to side with you. This. If you’re helping him with his goals, there’s going to be a...
View ArticleBy: Allen
First, so sorry about your cat. Friends cat just died at age 20. They almost immediately went out and got 2 rescue cats. Second, I provided engineering services to the Navy and I thought it would be...
View ArticleBy: gwangung
Second, I provided engineering services to the Navy and I thought it would be easy to spot where money could be saved. About the only thing I could find find was the way they contracted. The whole...
View ArticleBy: danielx
Ehhhh….defense spending is inherently redundant and wasteful, and that’s not even getting into Pentagon spending habits too much. ;Start rant: Item: Stuff becomes obsolete even if you’re not using it....
View ArticleBy: mclaren
You are wise, Bernard, not to believe Paul. He’s a sociopathic compulsive pathological liar who has billed his program of tax cuts for the rich paid for by slashing medicare and social security and...
View ArticleBy: mclaren
@danielx: On the contrary. “Defense” spending is just on the start of an exponential takeoff that will shoot up in a rocket ride to the stars, rivaling the records of the Voyager space probe. Don’t...
View ArticleBy: Sly
Getting efficiencies to emerge after cutting the top line only works if all the people involved in spending policy negotiations are fiscal technocrats who have no conflicts of interest, and not...
View ArticleBy: Batocchio
Sorry about your cat. Norquist is such a destructive force I’d be extremely wary of even a small/short tactical alliance with him. Working with someone less evil, possibly, to be evaluated on a...
View ArticleBy: Kurzleg
Let’s put this in context. The idea is that we cut spending in order to balance the budget, as if budget deficits created the recession in which we find ourselves. The right sees this as a perfect...
View ArticleBy: Kurzleg
Oh, and to your specific question, I’m very skeptical of such alliances. Elected Democrats haven’t done a particularly good job of using leverage to get things they want. I have my doubts that making...
View ArticleBy: rea
@Weaselone: You mean like the spending on 11 massive, active duty Super-carriers that will likely end up littering the bottom of the Taiwan strait in the event of an actual conflict? Highly unlikely...
View ArticleBy: mechwarrior online
The left has fallen over themselves to embrace the most vile economic actors and decisions provided they bring in some social liberalism. So we are willing to do it, we just aren’t willing to do it...
View ArticleBy: Barry
“What do you all think of that? I mean, I think most of us here would agree defense spending can be cut. Paul seems open to it, under the notion that cutting defense will lead to greater efficiencies....
View ArticleBy: someofparts
Locally, a friend of mine who worked very hard to keep fingerprint IDs from being attempted here told me that her only allies in the fight were libertarians. She said it was impossible to get other...
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