Lotho was stationed at Clark AFB in the Philippines when he was in the Air Force and his perspective on the military was vastly different from mine because Vietnam was over. From everything I saw, he had one outstandingly good time over there. No stories of any depth will be forthcoming from over there because of the basic rule: what happens in the military stays in the military.
He said the airmen walked back to the base and they crossed a bridge along the way which took them over a severely-polluted and slow-moving pool of water. There were girls in evening dresses who stood in small boats with butterfly nets and sometimes the airmen would throw pocket change to them. We assume the better-looking they were, the more change they would collect.
The girls were deft with their nets but sometimes they missed and the coins would fall into the filthy water around them.
It wasn't over, tho, because little boys would dive into that stinking water to try to catch that change.
Do you understand poverty yet.
Austerity programs are going on in most countries of the world and all, coincidentally of course, are run by conservatives. The levels of poverty created by the so-called economizing is more extreme than you know. In part it's racist and the Greeks would give the Turks in their country nothing. The result was the Turks lived in abandoned buildings in Pyrgos and begged for money, often at the biggest market in the small city. They couldn't get jobs because they entered illegally.
Some say America has such a strong GDP that twenty-trillion in debt is a manageable problem but it's not likely the 22% of children who live in the country really care much about such disastrous economic theories.
Past that point, the finger pointing starts on each side because, obviously, the other side did it. There is never talk of improved efficiency from either side as the only alternative they see is complete elimination of whatever they charge is the cause (i.e. whatever the other team is doing).
It's senseless, ludicrous, and couldn't more-perfectly characterize a broken democracy.
He said the airmen walked back to the base and they crossed a bridge along the way which took them over a severely-polluted and slow-moving pool of water. There were girls in evening dresses who stood in small boats with butterfly nets and sometimes the airmen would throw pocket change to them. We assume the better-looking they were, the more change they would collect.
The girls were deft with their nets but sometimes they missed and the coins would fall into the filthy water around them.
It wasn't over, tho, because little boys would dive into that stinking water to try to catch that change.
Do you understand poverty yet.
Austerity programs are going on in most countries of the world and all, coincidentally of course, are run by conservatives. The levels of poverty created by the so-called economizing is more extreme than you know. In part it's racist and the Greeks would give the Turks in their country nothing. The result was the Turks lived in abandoned buildings in Pyrgos and begged for money, often at the biggest market in the small city. They couldn't get jobs because they entered illegally.
Some say America has such a strong GDP that twenty-trillion in debt is a manageable problem but it's not likely the 22% of children who live in the country really care much about such disastrous economic theories.
Past that point, the finger pointing starts on each side because, obviously, the other side did it. There is never talk of improved efficiency from either side as the only alternative they see is complete elimination of whatever they charge is the cause (i.e. whatever the other team is doing).
It's senseless, ludicrous, and couldn't more-perfectly characterize a broken democracy.
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you and i have such different views on the solutions.
If everyone would give on on the idea of the government as a solution We could win.
If each person decides to help another then the solution is at hand.
I havent seen government aid do anything but create an entire dependent class of people. No solution.
Pick a topic and the government solution fails.
It is only when someone cares and offers help that people win.
The government only cares about itself and growing thier business and controlling more but affecting nothing.
Trump is not acceptable to me but I have not heard a Republican willing to negotiate on high-end taxes in decades. People are seriously underestimating him as apparently he is a lot more intelligent than he has sounded.
Any willingness to negotiate gives him a gigantic edge over Clinton, Ryan, etc because they're not capable of it and show limited imagination.
Things still remain the same to me as a Trump / Sanders square-off is my view of the people most compelled toward negotiation for all good things, etc and I really can't envision a more dynamic representation of the Will of the People. We know what negotiation with New Democrats means and Clinton is riddled with it in her god-like reverence of Obama. Negotiation for her means give the military whatever they want.
Those two seem less representative of government and more of ideas than any of the others and that strikes me as progressive. We shall see.
The election will happen someone will get elected. And I will continue to help in my little area. As it makes no difference who is elected.
I refuse to accept the defeatist thinking and Mark Twain was highly sardonic in saying, "If voting really did anything, they would not let us do it."
It's clever, he's a witty guy, but that kind of wit doesn't fix problems, it only highlights them.
Not necessarily elected Could actually be appointed. But they still wont solve anything except thier own campaign debt
I do get that about the succession down to the Speaker of the House but I seriously don't believe people will stand still for a stunt like that. With so much blazing anger in the country which is displayed so prominently, failure to deal with it is right up there with King Louis, even if Marie Antoinette really never said, "Let them eat cake."
She was cool, tho. She stepped on some executioner's foot while being led the guillotine and she apologized, saying, "I'm sorry. I certainly did not mean to do that."
She says that to the guy who will kill her. Fark!
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