[Psalm 73]

Will we even survive long enough for the adults to get back in charge of things?

[PIF]

including the bill’s shipbuilding account, which is $761 million less that the FY-25 request and eliminates two ship procurements.

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Always good to cut ship building when China already has 225 times US shipbuilding capacity. We wouldn’t want to make the Chiese PLAN nervous and force them to step up building ships, would we?

[Gen.Blather]

“Will we even survive long enough for the adults to get back in charge of things?”

The things you are talking about could be modeled as jelly. You could model the “adults” as hands with fingers. The adults will grab as much jelly as they can. Once the jelly is lifted the adults are in charge. But due to the nature of politics, there will always be some jelly that falls back. There are lots of reasons for this. The education system doesn’t sufficiently or accurately educate. Some of the jelly is political pandering which has been going probably since before there was language. Some of the lack of adulthood isn’t lacking adults, it’s adults from other cultures who quite literally live inside different reality. There are lots of other reasons. But suffice it to say there will never be enough adults, spread widely enough to capture all of the jelly at the same time. The most we might do is grab the most strategic and influential lumps of jelly and hold those. The problem with that is, once the adults are in charge they argue about which lump of jelly is the most important and strategic to grab, as they can’t grab it all. They fall to fighting amongst themselves and then lose power once again. It’s a cycle that repeats. An example might be, if you could hold only one, is it most important to stop legalization of drugs or end abortion?

[PIF]

The bill would also prohibit funding for a pier in Gaza that has been constructed by the U.S. military to deliver humanitarian aid but has also experienced challenges from severe weather and aid interceptions.

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Amid extremely poor design and the huge failure to even build a rudimentary breakwater, leaving the pier open to the weather and destruction by he first storm that comes along.

[circlecity]

A trillion dollars more debt every 90 days and the left won’t even slow the increases in spending.

[BobL]

“The White House opposes the defense spending bill, which honors the $895 billion cap mandated by the Fiscal Responsibility Act, for numerous other reasons, including the bill’s shipbuilding account, which is $761 million less that the FY-25 request and eliminates two ship procurements.”

Likewise I never thought I’d see the day when the DEMOCRATS would be demanding more money for weapons. But I guess when you’re trying to start World War 3, that’s what you do.

[Zhang Fei]

Will we even survive long enough for the adults to get back in charge of things?

The US is the highest income of the major industrial powers. Its military is the strongest in the world, by a country mile. Its corporations are household names around the world. Of the biggest 500 corporations in the world, American companies make 38% of the profits. Take out natural resource extraction and banks, and US companies would likely make the majority.

Re survival - Argentina has 100% inflation, and that's in a good year. It's surviving. Mad Max isn't on the horizon there, and no one thinks it is.

We fogeys tend to think in apocalyptic terms, that the end of the world is nigh. And for us, it is. Our body functions are breaking down, our joints hurt, our arteries are clogged, etc. But for the young, it's, as ever, morning in America. Apart from jealous rivals abroad engaging in wishful thinking, no one thinks the US isn't #1, let alone that collapse is on the horizon

[Candor7]

Excellent election issue. We wing it until next January 14th.

Have to. We have idiots running the country.

[alloysteel]

Wot a surprise. The military would better go unfunded than to allow this trash to be inserted into their operational budget. The purpose of the Department of Defense is to defend the homeland, and if that means Fortress America, so be it.

Once that vision is lost, there is little else to look forward to in that spirit and idea that was once constituted as the United States of America.

We are transforming into the Untied and Balkanized States of America. The real estate is still going to be there, but two or more factions will emerge out the other side, the Red state, nearly contiguous across the expanse, and perhaps a wide scattering of little Blue state republics, divided not by state lines, but by county lines or even city boundaries joined across former state borders.

[falcon99]

Wow, Biden opposes a Defense spending bill “on the grounds that they make steep cuts in non-defense spending” Who’d a thunk such a think democrats would oppose a bill that included irrelevant items items not related to the purpose of the bill.

[Jumper]

Biden still gets his 10%, but 15% over three years isn’t enough.

Jake Sullivan (Campaign Manager) and Anthony Blinken (last Campaign Manager) are still ramping up the war with Russia.

Biden want’s women to register for the Draft. Some say Zelinsky’s last act will be to sign the draft for 18 years and then he is gone.

[kawhill]

“and eliminate various initiatives related to climate change mitigation, abortion services and diversity, according to OMB.” Yeah, like that’s really important to a strong military.
These people baffle me.

[DesertRhino]

“The administration also opposes the bill’s 20% pay increase for junior enlisted servicemembers, with OMB noting that if the FY-25 budget request is enacted, servicemembers “will have received a 15 percent basic pay increase in just three years.””

You can’t attract enough recruits. You are taking about starting military slavery. Maybe just adjust the compensation to a point that you have all you need. Pay a backwater wage and stand back and pick and choose.
Supposedly we are capitalist.