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Found on FB (KOS page), gave me a stupid idea... (Original Post) hootinholler May 2013 OP
I've been saying this even before the sequester. Cleita May 2013 #1
I think we ought to tie the whole fucking budget to the Pentagon rurallib May 2013 #2
How about a peacetime army? East Coast Pirate May 2013 #3
sounds good to me - rurallib May 2013 #4
If we look at it objectively Plucketeer May 2013 #5
Hows about staging a month-long "Occupy K Street" Plucketeer May 2013 #6

Cleita

(75,480 posts)
1. I've been saying this even before the sequester.
Fri May 3, 2013, 08:15 PM
May 2013

Whether you clog the airport, or clog the freeways going into the airport, you have to make things inconvenient for them so that they finally have to sit down and ask is wrong with you people and what do you want? Otherwise they will ignore anything that you do that is polite.

rurallib

(62,379 posts)
2. I think we ought to tie the whole fucking budget to the Pentagon
Fri May 3, 2013, 09:19 PM
May 2013

everybody bows and kisses the Pentagon's ass.
So let's say that to get in the armed forces you have to have gone to Headstart -
Or that old folks will be our first line of defense so they must be fed daily --------

 

East Coast Pirate

(775 posts)
3. How about a peacetime army?
Sat May 4, 2013, 09:26 AM
May 2013

Two years of community service (Meals on Wheels/mentoring disadvantaged children, etc.) that would have the same benefits (college/home loan) that you would receive if you were preparing to invade a Third World country?

 

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)
5. If we look at it objectively
Sat May 4, 2013, 02:34 PM
May 2013

"objective" in the interpretation that's used on capitol hill - the military couldn't prevent Pearl Harbor nor 9/11 WTF? What they're proving to be really superb at is offering up American kids as shrapnel sponges - or preventing Afghan kids from graduating from childhood!

Edit for typo.

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