Hear hear: https://www.gao.gov/greenbook/overview
Look up the numbers yourself.
Short version though: in typical post-9/11 years, we deficit spend (by a scant few million, tens of million) before a penny goes to the DoD.

Stated differently: legally-mandated entitlements (social security,medicare, etc.) are the single…

Not yet. The “nuclear option” is to block Russia from the inter-bank clearing system. In essence, making it so that Russia could not make/receive any international payments. Now think about it: Russia’s income comes from oil and gas, two commodities whose trading is denominated in US$. Blocking Russia from the…

Right, and the US never tried to influence elections in other Democratic countries.

Quit posting this bs on Jalopnik and I will gladly leave.

This article has a strange vibe to it. Starting with the first sentence. I can’t tell if its just slightly amateurish or what but I want to feel support for the points its trying to make but there’s nothing really there. I actually find that with a lot of the “Russia Hacked the U.S. Election and Got Trump Elected”…

You haven’t met the real NASA then. It has become a bureaucratic monstrosity, a brainless behemoth lumbering along checking boxes and creating paperwork rather than an agency for exploration and research.

Not “this one time”.

Remember when FTA was about cool military technology? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

The US Navy has multi missions, one of them is a key part of the US nuclear triad. US SSBNs and SSNs are pretty useless in protecting global commerce, (attack submarines are better in wrecking merchant fleets, than protecting them, the example of how the US Submarine fleet pretty much annihilated the Japanese…

Again, you’re clearly very ignorant of the East China Sea and South China Sea territorial disputes. Japan, Vietnam, South Korea and the Philippines all currently occupy islands that China claims is their territory. There are mineral resources and fishing rights surrounding those islands (which are truly the core of…

I’m a huge Sato fan. You take the bad with the good.

I really like Sato, always have. I think he’s making a good case this season that he’s Andretti’s best driver ( If RHR actually had a shred of luck, he might challenge that, but alas... ). The guy won a race for Foyt for crying out loud! That’s almost impossible.

Now that’s the Sato I remember. Though I suppose I can’t talk this time, since my favorite driver triggered the biggest wreck of the night...

All great points, however I have no records or examples of the actual NAVY being used to protect those vessels, save one specific example where the ship had already been overtaken, and, as you said, contractors on the ships as deterrents would be much more effective. I have never heard of stationed combat vessels…

‘We will never be able to maintain the workforce needed if the DoD doesn’t relax it’s rules on drug testing for marijuana and change the focus on your credit score/banking habits. “

In the 70s and 80s, when CAFE standards were first implemented, most models of station wagons could not meet the standard, and were dropped. Larger families that would have bought a wagon instead bought a large SUV that got worse mileage, but fell into a different category of CAFE. If the standard is too difficult,…

I get what you are saying, but the fed is trying to remove CA’s ability to enact their own emission standards, that would be restricting the states to do what they want, no?