zzbunker@netscape.net
8/12/2009 3:05:00 AM
On Aug 11, 9:40 pm, Christopher Helms <Chrishelms...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Aug 11, 8:03 pm, "zzbun...@netscape.net" <zzbun...@netscape.net>
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> > On Aug 11, 7:23 pm, Christopher Helms <Chrishelms...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > On Aug 11, 6:12 am, *elation* wrote:
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> > > > August 11, 2009
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> > > > WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House leaders have dropped plans to spend
> > > > $550 million in the Air Force budget on passenger jets used by
> > > > lawmakers and senior government officials, officials said on Monday.
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> > > > The House of Representatives reversed the move to upgrade the
> > > > executive jet fleet after public criticism, opposition from other
> > > > lawmakers and the Defense Department had said it did not need more
> > > > planes that it had requested.
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> > > > "If the Department of Defense does not want these aircraft, they will
> > > > be eliminated from the bill," Representative John Murtha, chairman of
> > > > a House panel on defense appropriations, said in a statement.
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> > > > A spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she supports the
> > > > decision.
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> > > > Before leaving for the August congressional recess, the House approved
> > > > a Defense Appropriation bill for fiscal year 2010 that included $550
> > > > million for three Gulfstream jets and five military versions of a
> > > > Boeing 737.
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> > > > The Pentagon's original request was $220 million to purchase one
> > > > Gulfstream plane and three Boeing Co. aircraft.
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> > > > Murtha, a Pennsylvania Democrat, said the four additional planes his
> > > > subcommittee ordered would have replaced older aircraft that have
> > > > safety and maintenance issues.
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> > > What happens when there isn't any more money to borrow?
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> > Well, these idiots know so little about economics, other than
> > passenger jets,
> > the people with more than shit for brains long ago, like going on
> > 70 years
> > transitioned into AI, Digital Computers, DSP, Cellular
> > Communications,
> > Fiber :Optics Systems, Laser and Maser Systems, Laser Disks, and
> > Holographics,
> > Communication Satellites, Weather Sattellites, GPS, Digital Terrain
> > Mapping,
> > Data Fusion, Cruise Missiles, Drones, Phalanx, UAVs, AAVs
> > Micowave Systems, like Micowave Ovens, Microwave Cooling, and
> > similar things.
> > Microelectronics, Electronic Books, Intergrated Circuits, Nano-
> > Tech, Desktop Publishing,
> > On-Line Banking, On-Line Shopping, HDTV and On-Line Publishing.
> > Modernized Gas Turbine Systems, Solar Energy, Pv Cell Energy, neo
> > Wind Energy,
> > Biodiesel, Self-Replicating Machines, and Self-Assembling Robots.
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> > So, the only thing you can really say for the idiots anymore, is if
> > they have
> > to borrow money, they'll have to borrow it from Nigeria. Since
> > Nigeria is one of
> > the few countries that still loans crude oil to idiots.
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> We're already 300 billion over our previous over-budget projections.
> Did Reagan ever even have a 300 billion dollar annual budget for the
> whole country? and Reagan caught all kinds of hell for running
> deficits. I have no idea where all this money is supposed to be coming
> from, but if we don't stop blowing through money like this, at some
> point some law of economics is going to do it for us. This simply
> cannot go on much longer. Not only is there not enough money in the
> country, there isn't enough money on the planet.- Hide quoted text -
Welll, that doesn't matter with thieves, so the people with non-zero
educations
mostly stopped giving a crap either way. Since the stooges don't
couny such
mundane things as money in their imbeciles economics anymore.
It's all done with smoke, mirrors, six-shooters, pep-rallies,
whistles, whoopie cushions,
magic farts, and game theory.
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