The Washington Post has an editorial by Vice President Pence, asking Congress to pass our National Defense Authorization Act for, or of 2020. Which will create a 6th branch of the United States military, called the United States Space Force. It's going to be part of the Air Force, but, this one won't be in the air. It will be in space. And there's no air, there. An excerpt:
Under this proposal, the Space Force would be within the Air Force, similar to the placement of the Marine Corps within the Navy. More than any other organization, the Air Force has been at the vanguard of building the world’s best military space programs. So, creating the Space Force within the Air Force is the best way to minimize duplication of effort and eliminate bureaucratic inefficiencies.
Just as the Air Force began within the Army before becoming a separate military department, so too will this first step in establishing the Space Force pave the way for a separate military department in the future. The Space Force is the next and the natural evolution of U.S. supremacy in space.
Also at Chicago Tribune.
(Score: 3, Touché) by takyon on Sunday March 03 2019, @06:53PM (8 children)
Pay for itself? We're already $15-20 trillion in the hole. The trick is to dig as far as possible and then declare all debts void.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @06:57PM (3 children)
All that debt is denominated in U.S. Dollars. Guess who prints U.S. Dollars? The United States.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday March 03 2019, @07:34PM (2 children)
We'll switch to Buttcoins at that exact moment.
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(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @08:07PM
Too late, Pornhub cornered that market.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Monday March 04 2019, @02:59PM
At that moment the look on the faces of all the crooks who have squirreled away trillions of US dollars in offshore accounts would be one for the ages. It could only be exceeded by the look if they were arrested after having lost all that loot.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 03 2019, @11:22PM
If only we had a leader who was well versed in declaring bankruptcy and reneging on his debts.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @04:12PM
The national debt isn't anywhere near the point where it's a problem. The real issue is that what we're doing with that money. If we rolled back the Trump and Bush tax cuts and cut our military spending back to pre-9/11 levels, we'd be running a surplus of over $150bn without cutting services that people actually care about.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:06PM (1 child)
The trick is to dig as far as possible and then declare all debts void.
No, the trick is to dig as far as possible, and then take away everyone's earned benefits (Social Security, Medicare, etc.) that we've paid into all our lives and use the stolen money (it IS our money, after all, even if it is held in trust by the government, for loose definitions of "trust") to help offset the cost of the tax custs the Republicans gave to the very rich.
End result: the rich don't have to pay their fair share, they empty our social security and Medicare accounts to cover the cost, and we're all told to "just go off and die" when we get too sick or too old to continue slaving for the very rich, and making them even richer while we struggle, paycheck to paycheck.
But, but, but ... her emails. And abortion.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @07:33PM
Don't forget the R-lite position of "taxation is theft!!@!@!!!"