Posted on 03/23/2019 6:15:25 AM PDT by vannrox
But they only work 35 hours per week, get 6 weeks of vacation and have a great socialized medicine program.
Oh, and I almost forgot they have the US military to protect them.
See #39.
Obviously you did not read the report and the fine print carefully.
The proposed 3% additional funding includes an allocation of $20billion to the RAND corporation as a consultant to the DoD.
Their failure happened in 1974 or so. Some IBM guy threw together something to get them going.
They never corrected it, just kept building on it.
Then the poor guy who had worked on it for 40 years, using the most non-standard practices I have ever seen, got quite ill with cancer (I’m sympathetic having lost a family member). He was so ill he screwed up the code that only he knew.
Guess what? Nobody could fix this thing, not even the gal who had been there over 20 years.
But they expected me to fix it in 2.5 months. I kept telling them I can’t just hack away, it’s going to screw up all the financials. The gal and I tried a few small things but it wasn’t fixing the problem.
So I had to walk away. They weren’t going to let me stay.
Yeah, fix a 40 year old problem in 2.5 months with little or no documentation, not even practical comments in the code.
And believe me, the situation was worse from there.
Sure. I’ll just win Powerball twice a week. That will be easier.
Never saw anything like it. A complete hack job and a total silo. Without any real backups nor development structure.
I was the 2nd person in a row to give up and walk away.
Still, they can’t figure out what their main problem was.
There is massive waste in US defense spending. It's inside the expanded DC beltway spending. And that was done to buy everyone off so that Bush could get a consensus to invade Iraq. It's the deal that has brought down the US. For every fed or military employee in the Pentagon there is at least one and possibly three support service contractor coat holder and power point presentation specialist.
The consequence - a massive ripoff of the American taxpayer spent inside the DC metro area, and total utter incompetence at a level that rivals the worst corrupt third world dictatorship you have ever seen. The Republicans like it because of the money that goes to cronies. The Democrats like it because it is defense dollars that goes to jobs and not lethality.
I hope everyone gets it how those two GOPee clowns destroyed the United States.
Any "hot" war with Russia and/or China will start out nuclear with the fist strike.
[It will never recover to what it once waS]
dang it
I knew we were in deep trouble when I saw how much we were borrowing from China to finance the nation building.
I don’t remember the exact numbers but I was definitely taken aback.
This was a couple of years or so before the banks really went down in 2008 along with Lehman Brothers, etc.
And then along comes Barack who spends even more...
I’m just wondering when the next one is.
The scenarios also seem to assume first strike by China or Russia
Where is Russia getting the money to fight this imagined war? How about China? Are they cashing in their bonds?
If the war was being waged against free Americans in America, then yes, I would agree.
The clip from Yes, Prime Minister is still relevant for the most part.
"...work smarter, not harder, and think outside the box..."
Let’s make sure we’re all singing from the same page!!
FFS, I'm usually much better than this and would've at least attempted to google it!
No matter who is President, half the country will be rooting for the other side.
Any "hot" war with a major power will also bring with it civil conflicts at home as various factions use the pandemonium to settle scores.
It won't be like WWII with an entire nation united behind a just cause. It'll be street fighting between left and right elements fighting each other and amongst themselves.
We have no idea of the chaos.
One of the problems is that there is this little thing called geography. Some places are very easy for others to get to and very hard for the US to get to. "Spheres of influence" is not a political abstraction. It is a law of physics. Russia can project power a couple hundred miles a whole lot easier than we can project power a few thousand. The logistics costs alone prove the point. It's why offense requires a large multiple of defensive power in order to overcome defenses. The guy who is there has a huge advantage. It's why maneuver warfare works - deny the defender the advantage of being there by going somewhere else.
Think of it the other way around. Imagine the survivability of a Russian Task Force in the Gulf of Mexico with few narrow passages out and utterly surrounded by hostile forces. The Gulf is unquestionably indisputably ours.
Yes, rand does more than this. They also create anti gun, anti American and anti freedom policy.
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