$22 Trillion in Debt.

[Spurminator]

Soldiers fight for the good of their country and the intrinsic rewards that come with that, not the extrinsic stuff.

We'll see about that when you tell them to go fight without the benefits.

[Isitjustme?]

Read MY list then

I did. It was ing stupid. Basically you said get rid of social security and medicaid which dont help nobody. Then keep a huge military and air and naval force even though a) we havent been invaded on american soil since the war of 1812, b) our main foe rides camels and hides in caves and c) we're separated from anyone who would actually harm us by another hemisphere and the atlantic and pacific oceans.

You strike me as a re ed teenager who finds old people boring and subscribes to the digital web version of whatever guns & ammo magazine is tbh

[Will Hunting]

We must maintain the #1 military force (by a large shot) in the world if we are to remain the #1 economy and #1 superpower. That is a must. Though lowering Raytheon, Martin Marietta, Lockheed Martin subsidies is an option too, if they are at all public sector. But a lot of that is private sector.

Soldiers fight for the good of their country and the intrinsic rewards that come with that, not the extrinsic stuff. Sure, free education is a good thing too, that's part of why I recommended placing an iron fist over the ed-up university education industry.

Continuing to spend billions of dollars on tanks that literally sit in the desert for years before being decommissioned and haven’t had any notable impact in combat since WWII don’t do anything to make us the most powerful force in the world, the only reason we still buy tanks is because of the stranglehold companies like Lockheed have on Washington. The Pentagon tells Congress every year to stop spending billions on obsolete technology and they still do it.

Im also not sure what you mean by public/private sector. Over 80% of Lockheed’s revenue comes from government contracts. The company would go s up without the re ed military spending.

Im also not sure how you can justify the morality of sending soldiers into ed up 3rd world countries where they develop mental and physical ailments without VA benefits. The best way to cut VA spending is having less wars so you have less veterans who need to be treated for that happens in active combat.

[Will Hunting]

We'll see about that when you tell them to go fight without the benefits.

Or when you have a friend or family member who gets killed in a shooting because the shooter is a soldier who got back from Afghanistan and never got treated for PTSD.

I don’t think people realize how serious and common PTSD is with people who have seen active combat. Of the 3 veterans I know who served in Afghanistan or Iraq, all of them had PTSD and it’s taken years for them to get treated. Seeing your best friend’s head get blown off when he’s standing 2 feet away from you isn’t something humans are equipped to process from a mental standpoint.

[Will Hunting]

Congress, and Trump signs it. Bipartisanship.

Also, place strict regulations on colleges/universities such that there is a salary cap on lecturers, execs, deans, and other staff in the schools and set a maximum price on an undergraduate education. So little to no student loans are required for a degree. But also, eliminating the Federal Pell Grant system and the FAFSA.

Yeah great idea. Cap the salary someone with a PHD in chemical engineering can make at a university as a professor since it's not like he can go to the private sector and make more.

That definitely wouldn't lead to a massive public university brain drain and destroy the quality of education they offer.

[Pavlov]

lol fatcat professors are solely responsible for the cost of college

[Chucho]

LOL, Millennial Mesiah getting destroyed for flat out not knowing how the world works. And he claims he makes 6 figures...

[Millennial_Messiah]

lol fatcat professors are solely responsible for the cost of college

Yeah great idea. Cap the salary someone with a PHD in chemical engineering can make at a university as a professor since it's not like he can go to the private sector and make more.

That definitely wouldn't lead to a massive public university brain drain and destroy the quality of education they offer.

And the deans that make 8 figures.

How else to lower the cost of education back to reasonable levels... even say 1990s levels?

[Millennial_Messiah]

Continuing to spend billions of dollars on tanks that literally sit in the desert for years before being decommissioned and haven’t had any notable impact in combat since WWII don’t do anything to make us the most powerful force in the world, the only reason we still buy tanks is because of the stranglehold companies like Lockheed have on Washington. The Pentagon tells Congress every year to stop spending billions on obsolete technology and they still do it.

Im also not sure what you mean by public/private sector. Over 80% of Lockheed’s revenue comes from government contracts. The company would go s up without the re ed military spending.

Im also not sure how you can justify the morality of sending soldiers into ed up 3rd world countries where they develop mental and physical ailments without VA benefits. The best way to cut VA spending is having less wars so you have less veterans who need to be treated for that happens in active combat.

yes, isolationism is good, but you have to be prepared for the Pearl Harbors and 9/11s and offer nothing but swift and merciless retribution.

[Chucho]

right wing politics in a nut s . Rather than just tax rich people the way other modern countries do, we should eliminate Medicaid and force poor people to go into bankruptcy paying for healthcare.

Yeah, but no other 1st world country is within 200 Million of us in population and as we know, the rich tire of paying the bulk of taxes and find ways out of not paying their fair share. That's what most of us would do, it's human nature to want to protect and keep what you've worked for and earned. Hard to fault people for being human.

The easiest way would be to make lobbying illegal and regulate healthcare costs. Wont work in politics as no one gets to Washington without being backed by some interest. It wont change. American politics need to change, not who's in charge, for some real forward progress to ever be made.

[Millennial_Messiah]

I did. It was ing stupid. Basically you said get rid of social security and medicaid which dont help nobody. Then keep a huge military and air and naval force even though a) we havent been invaded on american soil since the war of 1812, b) our main foe rides camels and hides in caves and c) we're separated from anyone who would actually harm us by another hemisphere and the atlantic and pacific oceans.

You strike me as a re ed teenager who finds old people boring and subscribes to the digital web version of whatever guns & ammo magazine is tbh

Absolutely stupid post. You say we haven't been invaded on US soil since 1812, but you forgot 1941 and 2001 existed, neither of which happened when the US were actively involved in an overseas war??

[Millennial_Messiah]

The easiest way would be to make lobbying illegal and regulate healthcare costs.

I do fully agree with these 2.

[CosmicCowboy]

Our reaction to 9/11 was totally ed up and there will never be another Pearl Harbor.

[Will Hunting]

Absolutely stupid post. You say we haven't been invaded on US soil since 1812, but you forgot 1941 and 2001 existed, neither of which happened when the US were actively involved in an overseas war??

I wouldn’t call either 9/11 or Pearl Harbor an invasion. One was a suicide attack and the other was basically a hit and run. Neither could reasonably be considered an attempt to occupy American land.

[Pavlov]

And the deans that make 8 figures.

Which deans makes $10,000,000+/year?

Post your list.

[Millennial_Messiah]

I wouldn’t call either 9/11 or Pearl Harbor an invasion. One was a suicide attack and the other was basically a hit and run. Neither could reasonably be considered an attempt to occupy American land.

It's still an attack on US soil that cost innocent American lives, each of which is worth ten million foreign lives. Their endgame goal (both the 1940s Hitler and today's Jihadi Muslims) was/is indeed to conquer the world, including the West, with their ideology and governance so therefore they do qualify as precipitants to an invasion.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Which deans makes $10,000,000+?

Post your list.

, the new UNT one makes half of that

Well, Brian Moynihan makes 17 Million, I know that for a fact because it was posted on the company's intranet

[Pavlov]

It's still an attack on US soil that cost innocent American lives, each of which is worth ten million foreign lives. Their endgame goal (both the 1940s Hitler and today's Jihadi Muslims) was/is indeed to conquer the world, including the West, with their ideology and governance so therefore they do qualify as precipitants to an invasion.

[CosmicCowboy]

I wouldn’t call either 9/11 or Pearl Harbor an invasion. One was a suicide attack and the other was basically a hit and run. Neither could reasonably be considered an attempt to occupy American land.

Technically Japan did occupy the Aleutians which are part of Alaska, but your point is still valid as to a military invasion of the lower 48. We are basically being invaded by Central America, however...they just don't wear uniforms.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Don't be stupid. The japs were Hitler's proxy just like Israel is for us today, or Hezbollah for Iran.

[Pavlov]

, the new UNT one makes half of that

Which UNT deal makes $5 million+?

Well, Brian Moynihan makes 17 Million, I know that for a fact because it was posted on the company's intranet

Who does he work for?

[Pavlov]

Don't be stupid. The japs were Hitler's proxy just like Israel is for us today, or Hezbollah for Iran.

lol no

That's probably the stupidest thing I've read today.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Bank of America isn't a university.

On the contrary. I got paid to learn 100x more about java and computer science at Bank of America than I did in 3 years of PAYING to study computer science at UNT. So, Bank of America was the far better educator.

College professors are mostly lazy old liberal white men who get TAs who make $10 an hour to do their dirty, boring work and get paid $250k to show up to what amounts to a part-time, easy job. I think the max salary for a university professor should be in the range of $80k + cost of living adjustment. It's hard to learn from a ty college course but you need that degree to get jobs so you've got to be real here.

[Millennial_Messiah]

lol no

That's probably the stupidest thing I've read today.

calling a truth-bomb stupid.

[Pavlov]

On the contrary. I got paid to learn 100x more about java and computer science at Bank of America than I did in 3 years of PAYING to study computer science at UNT. So, Bank of America was the far better educator.

College professors are mostly lazy old liberal white men who get TAs who make $10 an hour to do their dirty, boring work and get paid $250k to show up to what amounts to a part-time, easy job. I think the max salary for a university professor should be in the range of $80k + cost of living adjustment. It's hard to learn from a ty college course but you need that degree to get jobs so you've got to be real here.

When did you learn a bank is a university?

Which UNT dean makes $5 million+?

Which deans makes $10 million+?