NASA plans 3 space walks to fix a leaky value on the space station.
Public statements indicate the leak is hurting the cooling system.
Ham radio operators say that's full of it. Because of budget considerations, the space station has only one toilet. Seems that, for some reason involving 'human error,' there has been some 'major blow back' in the system operations.
Various solutions were tried but without a plummer's helpers, the stoppage remains.
Not to worry. As soon as emergency repairs are made, things will be flowing smoothly again. And spewing into space litter.
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Showing posts with label budget. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Waste in Defense spending
I am stealing content from Fox News! Say it ain't so, Joe.
The government does have a budget. In my opinion, it has three parts.
Number One: The trust funds holding trillions for social programs.
Number Two: Existing programs already funded by previous budgets which must by law continue to be funded unless action is taken to unfund the programs.
Number Three: Discretionary spending.
That would be programs rolling over which must be voted through the legislature, funded on the budget, and signed into law by the President PLUS new spending programs.
If we eliminated Number One from consideration, defense is the largest spending item and there fore the largest source of debt.
If we examine Number Three, defense spending will be more than 51% of the new spending programs next budget year.
Even Fox News admits defense spending is wasteful if not frivilous.
Check out this link on Bush's secret Afghanistanian Air Force.
Hint perhaps a spoiler: It's not in the air.
It's on the ground in Europe, paid for. Rotting away and no longer able to fly.
I wonder which Conservative Republicans voted for that disaster.
How did this happen? Before Obama became President, some crack head in the DOD gave half a billion dollars to a private industry company to rebuild some old planes and supply replacement parts.
What happened? The refurbished planes were crap and needed replacement parts to fly.
Where were the replacement parts? The private industry company didn't have any.
How is that possible for someone to get paid for planes which can't fly and invisible parts?
Ask a Republican. The planes will be disposed off either by us, the environment, or someone 'over there.'
The government does have a budget. In my opinion, it has three parts.
Number One: The trust funds holding trillions for social programs.
Number Two: Existing programs already funded by previous budgets which must by law continue to be funded unless action is taken to unfund the programs.
Number Three: Discretionary spending.
That would be programs rolling over which must be voted through the legislature, funded on the budget, and signed into law by the President PLUS new spending programs.
If we eliminated Number One from consideration, defense is the largest spending item and there fore the largest source of debt.
If we examine Number Three, defense spending will be more than 51% of the new spending programs next budget year.
Even Fox News admits defense spending is wasteful if not frivilous.
Check out this link on Bush's secret Afghanistanian Air Force.
Hint perhaps a spoiler: It's not in the air.
It's on the ground in Europe, paid for. Rotting away and no longer able to fly.
I wonder which Conservative Republicans voted for that disaster.
How did this happen? Before Obama became President, some crack head in the DOD gave half a billion dollars to a private industry company to rebuild some old planes and supply replacement parts.
What happened? The refurbished planes were crap and needed replacement parts to fly.
Where were the replacement parts? The private industry company didn't have any.
How is that possible for someone to get paid for planes which can't fly and invisible parts?
Ask a Republican. The planes will be disposed off either by us, the environment, or someone 'over there.'
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