Last post in this topic since I'm getting a hat trick...
We live on one income and have done so for the past seven years. We don't have the nicest cars (2005 Jeep and now a 2009 Ford), and we live in a townhome instead of a single family house. Our daughter goes to public school, but we...
Obviously, you're working in a developmental position which is not what the majority of people are doing (there are also 5-7-9 developmental positions). Most jobs are hired at specific GS levels, and the job progression is through the Steps, not Grades. Steps 1-4: Start at 1 and increase by...
All of DoD is moving to NSPS or has already done so. The last employees to move under the pay banding were under DCIPS, which has just recently been implemented in the Army, for a similar pay banding. The push is being made at DoD (read: Secretary Gates) despite pressue from Congress to hold...
Maybe if you read the news, you'd read that the government is set to grow even more in the next couple years because the government as a whole is moving away from outside contractors who perform essential government functions, instead hiring permanent government employees to do those jobs (at a...
That is part of my view, too, in conjunction with what I wrote above. There is no incentive for the banks to deny loans because they know they are protected by the federal government. There is no incentive for the schools to lower costs because the students have access to these massive loans...
With regard to AQ, that's naive. The initial reason for AQ forming was the presence of "foreign occupiers" in the holy land of Islam (Arabia). We have since pulled out troops out of there so now there are other reasons. There will ALWAYS be reasons for some terrorists, even if their initial...
Snow removal is done at the local level, and there are enough people with trucks who enjoy plowing that communities could take up any slack with a loss of federal dollars. Salt application would be hindered, I imagine.
Roads and bridges are ALREADY crumbling, which means that the money is...
If we had to make the REALLY HARD choices, what would happen? Perhaps we could institute a law which allowed for deficit spending in times of national crises, to account for war or economic calamity, but which necessarily were limited in time, perhaps requiring a national referendum for an...
They also have an unsustainable socialist society which is slowly going bankrupt. Also, if someone can afford the best medical care in the world, they are typically taking a flight to the United States, not Stockholm.
The US government exists to protect the people of the United States and manage the laws which are the basis of our society. AQ exists to kill infidels and apostate Muslims and to re-establish the Caliphate from Africa to Asia, encompassing "Muslim lands". The people of the United States can...
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Ah, yes, leave it to a partisan hack to ignore the other salient aspect to the poll.
52% Controlling costs
42% Expanding coverage
Still think that Americans are clamoring for the Obama plan? A MAJORITY of Americans want to lower the costs, not institute universal healthcare, in...
Hawaii actually does have the "long form" -- it's simply a separate application instead of the Certification of Live Birth which the Obama campaign released last year. (Yes, I did look into this issue because I hadn't realized it had taken on a life of its own.) I'm somewhat familiar with this...
No, it's not that at all. Of course this moron is responsible for his own actions, just as the idiots who took out interest-only jumbo mortgages are to blame for their actions in the housing market.
However, just as in the housing market, the student loan lenders bear some responsibility in...
Well, if they would release the long form of the President's birth certificate, I think it would clear up most of the questions from the conspiracy crowd. I'm not giving any credence to the theories surrounding his citizenship, but I'm curious why that hasn't been done already to shut these...
Long range SAMs do factor in, but keep in mind that if the SAM is near the of its range, it will be easier for electronic warfare assets to defeat it. AWACS will likely operate with EW support if it's near any sort of danger like that.
If anyone looks at the MASSIVE Chinese military build-up...
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