I remember an Onion article at the time along the lines of “Nation’s Landfills Struggling to Deal With Jar-Jar Binks Merchandise”
I remember an Onion article at the time along the lines of “Nation’s Landfills Struggling to Deal With Jar-Jar Binks Merchandise”
That sounds more shudder-y than the horror movie app “Shudder”
... so, Green Acres and Sheriff Lobo reruns?
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It’s huge, but from a monetary standpoint Social Security is larger — and it’s been successfully audited. There are ways to handle black budgets when Congress needs to pass a budget, so I think they could be accommodated in an audit.
We can’t expect the wealthy ruling class to pay for their world police themselves.
Then perhaps, to put it bluntly, the US needs to be rethinking the cost/benefit analysis on those alliances. We heavily subsidize defense for a good portion of the entire developed world. That subsidizing has allowed nations like Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, the UK, and others to build peaceful and prosperous…
(1) It doesn’t. The US navy, like the rest of the US military, is designed to fight a war that will never happen: a none nuclear third world war. Our military planners are still anticipating a massive world war against Soviet/Russian/Chinese/Terrorist? forces with theaters all over the world. They’ve been ignoring the…
There’s a reason why the 10 wealthiest counties in the United States ALL contain defense contractors. It’s the dirty secret Republicans never want to talk about - the federal govt creating massive wealth.
The best part of capitalism is when shitheads accidentally waste their money in the funniest of ways.