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Ya know Larry, the Military has never been known to question the senselessness AND the short-term thinking of certain "deciders".(no matter the elected officials lack of intelligence OR experience...OR lack of historical perspective for THAT matter)

I assume you are not suggesting that the miltary decide which orders they will obey and ignore ones they don't like.

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As YOU know, that ISN'T their job and MAYBE the reason why poor Gen. Casey is sittin' on the "hot seat" as we speak(that poor devil is "taking the fall" for..ahem... "others'" "bright" decision making in the recent past, I'D SAY!)

Actually General Casey is there responding to a bunch of armchair generals who love to grandstand before the press while taking ZERO responsibility for their actions.

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And WHY maybe Air Force tanker toilet seats cost 500 bucks a pop!!!(SOMEBODY'S rackin' in the dough somewhere, and it sure isn't the union worker OR that poor un-unionized soul workin' at WALMART!)

The plane with the $600 toilet seat was bought for a P-3 Orion, a plane I flew in the reserves. The reason it costs so much was that, due to the restrictions placed by Congress required it to be custom made within the acquisition process. They were not allowed to just make one. It had to be milspeced, tested, and fully documented. The Congress required it, not the Navy.

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And regarding the U.S.Postal Service...at least THEY deliver our letters almost ALWAYS in a timely manner, for only what...37cents nowdays???(with only the occasional worker "going postal")

It would be a lot less if they weren't using the profits from first class mail to subsidize the services where they do not have a government enforced monopoly.

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Yeah! the Military is a "model" of efficiency ALRIGHT!!!

See above example

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But DON'T get me wrong. We DO need 'em! But I think what we need EVEN MORE is, as you stated, LONGER TERM REAL WORLD THINKING in ALL of America's endevours, in both the public AND private sectors.(oh...and an EDUCATED electorate which costs money too, ya know...seems to me a lot of the money that coporations AND unions give to candidates so they can insult our intelligence with those moronic TV ads come every election, COULD go a long way towards THAT "little" problem, wouldn't ya say?)

Cheers,
Dwight
(BTW...thanks for your service. I MEAN that)


We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.