[The answer to this is actually really simple. PBS while they could fund themselves through private means still wants “free” money from the government. It makes things that much more cushy.
Government throwing funds at the economy to “stimulate” it, actually has the opposite effect and I will explain what I watched first hand.
Back when they did they started talking about the massive bailout almost immediately utilities put a halt to current projects. Utilities plan projects years in advance and have the funds to do them. They froze the projects because they could smell money on the table and ultimately they could use it to improve their bottom line. When the stimulus was finally passed they then needed to file for the grants. The way this worked most simply was a dollar for dollar matching scheme to help with equipment retrofits.
So all of that moved at a snails pace through the cogs of government bureaucratic paper. Meanwhile here in reality, planned projects have now been on hold for over 6 months, all because they could smell money on the table. When funding finally did start rolling in, almost a year after it started to slow down, projects rates looked just like it did prior to the funding push. What happened was a projects that it merely subsiding what was already planned. This didn’t have the effect of creating jobs since it’s still the same crews doing the work. The most entertaining thing though is overall the decrease in output will never be really made up. Everything the utilities are doing was already planned, this didn’t magically create extra work. All it did in the end was delay the inevitable.
How’s that for the government “stimulating” the economy? Still think only the government is capable of solving problems?
This is why PBS is going off the deep end. They see free money and they want some of it. -B]
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
It appears that there is credible information suggesting another terrorist attack is going to occur in the middle east. You know much like the first one that killed a US Ambassador and 3 other US citizens. Our fearless leaders response can be summed up with the following statement:
Umm, why are we still sending money to that crap hole? Seriously, why is anyone in our government still contemplating sending our money to those who will just use it to kill our own civilians.
Yeah, Reason magazines response I think fits this incident quite well.
Lets not ignore the fact that this administration still tries to blame a video for something that is actually a terrorist action. I watched the video and it doesn’t even qualify as something that would even fit into Grindhouse cinema. Some of us have woke the fuck up, there’s plenty more than continue to want to rack up debt and fund our enemies, who’s really asleep at the wheel here?
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
If my tax rate went up, but everyone was guaranteed to pay the same exact rate, I would support it. No more out’s, no more credits, no more deductions. Just a simple equations, “Your Income” x “Tax Rate” = “What you owe” and the tax rate is the same no matter who you are or what you make.
I am more than willing because I know that tax rate won’t last for long as every last incumbent is voted out of office until the tax rates are finally lowered for everyone. You’re much less willing to support a tax when it’s your money the government is taking.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
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So this morning a bunch of miscreants invaded sovereign US soil. The knocked down a wall, took down the flag and burned it. The response by the embassy security detail was how shall we say, lacking.
Linoge I think was onto something when he said the embassy boss didn’t want to standing in front of a board trying to explain fatalities. This is why I probably am not, and will never be an overseas ambassador. My solution would match the below.
Childers in Rules of Engagement had the right idea. (Sorry for the music going over top).
Not only did he defend the sovereign US soil, he retrieved and protected the American flag. The embassy is US soil folks. For those who do not understand what I am saying, this was equivalent to them invading somewhere in the states. If someone breaks into your house, you can shoot the bastards, and in this case people breaking into your house is the equivalent to an act of war.
So here’s a news flash to the US Egyptian Embassy, next time do your freaking job, defend the embassy, the flag, and do not apologize for their aggression! Then again we have a president who supports the Muslim Brotherhood so what should we expect? I wouldn’t be surprised if the embassy was told to let them be run over. Heaven forbid we actually defend America.
I know every last Marine in that embassy is feeling sick because they were prevented from doing what they’ve been trained to do. Pardon me while I go watch a movie now.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
Some people have an understanding of how and why it’s important. Then there are others who just don’t give a damn.
Let me explain something to everyone. This isn’t a joke and this is deadly serious. There are a few fruit cakes out there that had the gall to call the men who place their lives on the line gutless.
Let’s get something straight. It doesn’t matter which party is in office, their job is to keep their mouth shut when necessary. Accomplishments tied to national security are not to be flaunted in public in the view of everyone.
I have many friends in the engineering professions who do work specifically tied to national security. There is nothing specific on their resumes about what they’ve done. Most of the information listed on any accomplishment is done in a non-nondescript manner where the end use isn’t discernible.
This man however has ripped the veil off of material that should not be seen by the public. When you make it public, that means our enemies can see it as well. Only a moron who has no concept of the sacrifice and danger these men take on their shoulders would dare claim they were acting within partisan interests by posting this message.
If you are fine with this behavior I suggest you go enlist and head down range. Then you might understand exactly what it is this man has done by ripping the veil off.
There are people who hate the United States and we struck back at the man responsible for September 11th, 2001. Anonymity w as the biggest defense to protect the men responsible for striking back. Our fearless leader, in an effort to extort political capital on the sweat of these men’s backs, removed that anonymity and exposed them to danger and attack.
We had no need to know which service, which group, or which team was responsible for taking out evil and laying a solid blow. Without that information those men were merely a few in a sea of thousands, the pool becomes unbelievably large if you consider that depending on the release we may not have even known it was a special operations group.
My dad served his country and we know there were stories we never heard. Not because they were painful, but because there was no reason we needed to know. There were a few we finally heard after the Soviet Union fell, even then it was obvious that parts were left out. When I signed my name on the line I wasn’t looking for recognition, and I knew that depending on where I went I may very well end up with stories that I carried silently until I died.
I feel ashamed at times I never made it all the way through to my commission, metal rods in both legs when they’re turning people away left and right limited my options. Could I have fought harder, probably, in the end though I now know what my dad meant when he said the following, “I left the Navy after 16 years because any country willing to elect Jimmy Carter as president doesn’t deserve to have me serving in their armed forces.” As much as I wanted that commission I am pleased I didn’t have to suffer through the Obama Administration while in the service.
That thought bugs me no end, however I did not sign on that line so a politician could use my work, my service, and my commitment for their own political gain. While I may have never “served” and that disappoints me. I am glad that I haven’t been able to be used and manipulated in such a manner. It wouldn’t matter which party was in office, it’s the behavior of the man and how he respects and leads those who have signed on the line to serve. Obama’s respect and leadership of those who serve is lacking. I had a choice, though many had no choice in the matter.
You don’t go doing work tied to national security looking for fame or fortune. You do it because you know it needs to be done and it needs to be done well. You don’t talk about it, you don’t advertise it, you just work on it behind the scenes. When someone asks you what you do, you don’t provide details, you provide the mundane, they have no need to know. Some can’t handle that, they want to be patted on the head and told good job. They want to brag to show how awesome their job is.
Other’s just silently continue on, content in the knowledge that what they do keeps their family safe at night. That the tools they design will be used by men doing violence on their behalf. It’s a job that has to be done. They know and take solace in the fact that what they are doing does matter and it makes a huge difference, no matter if anyone knows or not.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
If I lived within a day’s driving distance round trip I would be patronizing your establishment as soon as possible. Instead I hope that some of my friends who live in Virginia can pay you a visit in my stead. I applaud you for standing up for yourself and not taking the cowards way out for cheap press and letting your convictions slide.
Though I will say you’re probably getting considerably more press and coverage by telling them no, than you would have by accepting their patronage.
If I have a business, I didn’t build that. Someone else made that happen. In the words of Samuel L. Jackson:
He said, plain as day, “if I have a business I didn’t build that, someone else did”. But lets humor them for a second and say it just applied to “infrastructure”.
It wasn’t the government that built the roads, no, it was small independent contractors, aka small businesses that built that. They were paid from money collected by the federal government. That money was collected from businesses and their employees. They made that money by selling goods and services to other people. So really small businesses through inter-cooperation built roads and infrastructure with the government getting involved to take a cut of the costs.
So maybe what Obama was actually talking about was money. You see government prints the money and since it’s no longer standardized on anything they can print as much as they want. So it was the government that built a fiat currency to use to buy all this stuff and in the end screw businesses by devaluing the currency used for transactions. That is the only way that “If you have a business, you didn’t build that” can possibly make any sense. That statement can only hold true if you say that government is the creator and founder of using money in exchange for goods and services. Except you need not only use cash, you can barter or use precious metals in transactions as well.
The bottom line is the President let us look under the veil on that one. Under that veil we saw what many of us already knew, a hard-core socialist that wants to drive private independent businesses into the ground and have a central government-run it all. Because in that case no one would build that, it would all be “owned” by the government. No thanks Mr. President, keep the change.
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
Ok sparky, I know you’re a little slow so I’ll try and make this patently obvious.
You and your buddies are the ones putting us in chains.
Let’s get something straight, the definition of slavery involves an involuntary relationship. IE the government taking more taxes out of its citizenry. I am free to enter or not enter into business with banks or other institutions. Likewise I wish that you meddling monkeys would keep your nose out of it and let the companies that are more promiscuous than that of a whore in a whore house fall flat on their face when their VD finally catches up with them.
The fact is numb nut, it is you and your buddy Fearless Leader which have laid chains upon us by forcing us enter into business with merchants. In so doing you have also engineered the system into failing so that in the end, Our Enemy the State will be our master.
You see I am forced to pay taxes at gun point, even if you waste and squander money in ways I consider frivolous. I am now forced to buy health care as well, and failure to do so results in me further paying my Uncle that has absolutely no fiscal sense.
I can make my choice of who I take a loan from. In so doing it is my responsibility to understand the terms and conditions of that loan. If a moron runs out and buys a house he can’t afford, well that’s his damn problem. He placed himself in those chains voluntarily.
You however Mr. Vice President have worked with your friend the President to lay upon us a very heavy set of chains. Frankly sir, I wish the two of you would do us both a favor and Fuck Off. I didn’t ask for any of this bull shit yet I’m being stuck with the bill.
As far as I’m concerned, when it comes to you and President Shithook, you both are nothing more than forcefully enslaving the working middle class. Go to hell you pretentious dick.
The Minuteman
P.S. I don’t like the alternative any better, but the one upshot is with Romney the media will finally do it’s damn job again.
P.P.S. You have no room to talk about Ryan’s budget because at least the fucker had one. You and your cohorts haven’t had a budget in 3 years. You know why? Because you’re worse than a sailor on liberty in a whore house!
TMM is the owner, editor, and principal author at The Minuteman, a competitive shooter, and staff member for Boomershoot. Even in his free time he’s merging his love and knowledge of computers and technology with his love of firearms.
Many know his private name and information however due to the current political climate, many are distancing themselves due to the abandonment of Due Process.
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