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It's an enforced IRA, as I mentioned earlier.

Come on. Social Security is paid into by workers and employers. It is hardly the gov giving people money for doing nothing. It is an enforced IRA, with no individual control.

Interesting example. Iran Contra, for all that was questionable, was definitely in our best interest, just as arming the Mujahideen was, though it ultimately led to Bin Laden and al quaeda.

It is especially important now, as we have allowed our border to be unenforced.

There are adjustments that could be made, and I'm not sure how much is done inside the borders. But......The inability of the FBI, internal, and CIA, external, to be able to coordinate is exactly what led to 9/11. The redesign of the intel universe in the US was absolutely necessary with a changing threat.

Absolutely crazy suggestion.

I am getting a whiff of a huge lawsuit.

i hope your meeting went well. Providing a history of Sects or Transportation, in no way, addresses the failure of this one. He is a fool who has wasted time and money doing stupid non productive woke crap. Everybody in the industry knows this. Typical Biden appointee who fills the gay box, but is useless to the American taxpayer and the industry he serves.

The man is reviled in the FAA and airline industry. Idiotic appointees who didn't survive basic Congressional hearings. But..To his credit, he did use taxpayer dollars to eliminate anything "male" in the vernacular of various agencies, so we have that. Total waste.

I'd rather make news than get news. In the OP, CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin is a tried and true NYC liberal. No issues with that, but I'm a Squawk Box watcher every day, from 6-7, then Today Show for ten minutes as the Mrs. joins me, then back to CNBC once Al Roker starts his weather histrionics or they do anything entertainment industry related, which I have zero interest in. First selection on the laptop every AM is google news, and I avoid known biased sites. No Fox. No MSNBC. No CNN. For accurate middle east and specifically day to day Navy operations, I watch Ward Carroll on Youtube. Extremely well informed, honest and not the usual knucklehead that you see on networks.

I square thing OK.

I think you're a lunatic who has no real understanding of any of this, so I'll refrain.

I'm not sure what this sentence is trying to convey, but that's another issue. Retirees, or people on fixed income might have a different view re inflation of the past couple years. I don't blame any politician for all of it, but they all share in the blame for crazy fiscal policy.

Ya. I'm "cooked."

So he did nothing regarding this view from 96-99, and nothing since 2022, until the barbaric, sub human attacks of Oct 7? Sure. Netanyahu agrees with 90% of the population of Israel, which is that Hamas need be eliminated. Not the civilian Panestinians.......Hamas, and he is correct.

It wasn't started by any president. It was started by a terrorist industry led by a lunatic, whom they were harboring, and who was exporting its murder. The regime was offered an option to give him and his training industry up, and they refused. We didn't "start" it.

This is exactly true, and I have pointed it out here, more than once. The Trump plan had an out, if noncompliance. It was not used.

The 2500 troops could have been used for any purpose. A proposal was submitted by JCS and SecDef to have such a contingent remain in order to support an orderly withdrawal. The President rejected that, and later denied, in spite of testimony from those two appointees, that such an option was presented. On a tactical note, rules of engagement are promulgated to operators from Washington. Specific weapons free decisions are made by individuals or on scene commanders, if time permits, based on the situation.

Couldn't disagree more. Complete blame deserves to be on the Biden Administration. Bagram could have been easily defended with 2500 US troops with their defenses, against the street thugs. Didn't happen, and that is on the Administration.

You are dead wrong. Of course he has operational control if he so chooses. See Operation Eagle Claw, the Carter thing, and Rolling Thunder, ( as well as other Viet Nam failures) as evidence.

It was not an operational failure, it was a strategic failure that was ordered from Washington. 2500 troops positioned at Bagram would have likely prevented the debacle. 2500 is not a small number in this context. Instead, the Washington decision resulted in the disastrous embarrassment.

I insulted no one. I am simply not going to respond to him, absent some compelling reason. It is that simple, and I'd be pleased to be banned if that is untenable.

I do OK, but thanks.

I only comment as an individual who has been involved in investment markets for decades and has been to China many times, so my views are empirical, and anecdotal. Others may have differing views. China is a country run on a targeted economic competition. They pay no attention to any environmental issues. No child labor issues. No slave type working conditions. They impose heavy tariffs on imported goods, thus denying US products fair exposure in their markets. They routinely allow and support violation of patents and intellectual property rights. Go to the Silk Market in Beijing. You will see vendor after vendor on many floors selling products with US company logos on them at prices far below what is reasonable. Totally unenforced. I was talking to a guy who was the Chief Operating Officer; the actual production guy, on a flight there. Silicon Valley company. He relayed to me his experience. His company had come up with leading edge solar panel technology and wanted to have these produced in China. The Chinese gov made them submit the technology to them in some convoluted effort to determine if the production would be "safe." They complied. Within months, a Chinese production facility was built and up and running using their exact technology and producing an identical product. Completely stolen. That's what happens when the gov is behind the fraud. I won't even get into the abuses of the industry I was involved in. Massive bribery is required to get various things done there. No reasonable, objective and accurate financial reports. I could go on and on, but failing to see that gov as a gross violator on international trade issues is an incredibly foolish posture, and ultimately a serious threat to US and western, law abiding trade and labor.

You have no idea. Absolutely none, but I don't have an interest responding to you. Sorry, that's just the way it is.