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View Poll Results: What do you think the USA's top priority should be. | |||
Prevent a terrorist attack inside the US. | 10 | 28.57% | |
Improve the economy | 11 | 31.43% | |
Finish the War in Iraq | 2 | 5.71% | |
Social issues ie: abortion rights/ban ect. Health care. | 4 | 11.43% | |
Secure the borders. | 8 | 22.86% | |
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Border protection should be of top priority....
I also believe all law enforcement should help OJ find the real killer!
computerized guardhouses spaced every 50 miles or so along the border with a laser beam connecting it to the next one. Anyone tried to cross......zzzzzap! Kinda like a bug zapper. Sorry MedMech, it;'s friday and I haven't had a drink yet.
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I'm out of touch, obviously. In my patch of swamp the economy is sizzling. Prcie of fuel goes up and things here hum.
BTW, many people want to increase the fed tax on fuel to slow consumption. I don't recall how much/gallon they proposed, but it looks like supply and demand are working the same magic formula proposed for gov. Except gov ain't squandering it on a new project in Congressman Domfekker's district. |
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I tried to edit the options so you could vote for more than one, I should have had secure borders with prevent a terrorist attack. They pretty much go hand in hand, but I look at it a little differently.
If all would be terrorist are dead everywhere we don't have to worry about the borders too much. |
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Attempting to understand the psychology of the enemy is not a sign of weakness -- it is an important part of any real and productive victory.
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This will sound woo - woo, please bear with me. We need to become way better at efficiency in energy and resource usage. This is econ 101. Businesses that get the most benefit out of their resources are businesses that thrive at the expense of businesses that are wasteful/inefficient. Toyota is preparing for a years long a$$ whupping of GM & Ford and it didn't have to be that way. Oil prices ain't gwine to be going down. Fighting over it in the middle east, S. America, and Africa is likely to increase. Part of the reason we have so much rampant illegal immigration is that we have wealth just lying around, waiting to be picked up by people who have had experience at getting by with way less. Indian immigrants are making good livings at running small hotel/motels and running taxi companies. They've become more adept at utilizing resources than us fat and lazy gringos (present company excluded, of course ). AND, IMHO, our kids are getting fat because they don't do any or at least enough work. I don't want to see us become a top-heavy dottering, nouveau Roman Empire but it's looking that way.
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You have that right in American Youth of Today(for the most part are spoiled) by their Parents.I mean I see yhese 16-17 tr old kids tooling around in New Beemers and Hondas all souped and decked out -valued at $25,000 Who is paying for it? The Parents spoiling the Kids, they are gettibg Soft way to soon in life.I really beleive that "Our best Times" have sadly passed and China and India are the Rising stars. We have only ourselves to Blame . I don't see it as Liberal/conservative issue, our downfall; plenty of blame to go around on both political sides. You only have to look at the Close paralells between the Downfall of Roman Empire and the USA of today and see the close resemblence, for example-1) a national money being more and more worthless every passing day(precipitated by our going off the Gold Standard(bretton woods accord) in 1971. Now we have all this lousy credit getting people in trouble-record credit card debt. 2) Our Military stretched WAY too thin--as it is now without the draft-we are in Deep DooDoo if we have an outbreak in N.Korea while in Iraq. Where's trhe extra troops? Recruiters have not met Goals since Jan. this year--Our present soldiers are exhausted for back to back tours of duty. They say no Draft but watch and see=its COMING-maybe by a different name but its around the corner. There are other similarities if a person reads the "The Rise& Fall of the Empire(roman) Last edited by miamimike; 06-27-2005 at 04:42 PM. |
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In the latter years of Rome, citizens no longer signed-up for the Army. It was an army composed of foreigners with no allegience to Rome other than lip service. They had some allegience to their commanders who were usually men from powerful Roman political families dependent on subordinates. There was no incentive for soldiers to show personal initiative. Longevity determined noncom rank.
We do have a large number of foreigners in the military. But they are pretty good soldiers eager to gain citizenship (an avenue not available to Rome's mercenary armies). In the American military the officers are professional, not political appointees. Loyalty in American the army is to the smallest unit (your buddy) and up from there. Personal initiative is encouraged though longevity is still a part of rank and pay. Which, by the way, Rumsfeld is studying for change downplaying base pay and increasing the role of incentive pay. Infantry finally gets its due. That will be interesting. |
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Saw it on C-SPAN. Came from the CNO in a presentation to some think-tank. He said the career paradigm for WWII and the Cold War doesn't fit the realities of today's job market in which people change jobs and may have several careers in a lifetime. Said that 2/3 of his budget was spent on human resources in some fashion and that increasing efficiency had probably reached the max return and now they needed to change the whole paradigm, which he said is do-able. That floored me. He was talking specifically about the USN but I assume Rumsfeld wants the same thinking for every branch. |
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