Thread: Obamas first bad decision.

I hope you were not offended by anything Ive said. My comments were not directed toward any body who works for their daily bread, my comments were directed towards the "oysters and champagne along the Potomac" crowd. ie the pro politicians.

Originally Posted by nun2sharp

I hope you were not offended by anything Ive said. My comments were not directed toward any body who works for their daily bread, my comments were directed towards the "oysters and champagne along the Potomac" crowd. ie the pro politicians.

No offense taken. Just send us better politicians. They're the only ones eating oysters and drinking bubbly, along with their K Street cronies.

Anne Appelbaum had an op-ed in the Post a few weeks ago in which she points out that, while people complain about "Washington," very few people are really from here. The people who cause all the trouble, she says (and I agree with her) are sent here from other places.

So please, send us better politicians.

j

Originally Posted by Nord Jim

So please, send us better politicians.

j

Im tryin' brother I'm tryin'!

Personally I would like to see all lobbyists done away with, they steal/hinder the influence of the people!

Originally Posted by Nord Jim

So please, send us better politicians.

What about the governor of Alaska? Is she any use to you? She must be useful for something...

Originally Posted by sidneykidney

What about the governor of Alaska? Is she any use to you? She must be useful for something...

Not really. Want her?

j

Originally Posted by Nord Jim

Not really. Want her?

j

Actually now you mention it I was looking for a way to keep my bike upright. Send her over...

Originally Posted by sidneykidney

Actually now you mention it I was looking for a way to keep my bike upright. Send her over...

Well, maybe. She leans to the right quite a bit.

j

Originally Posted by Nord Jim

Well, maybe. She leans to the right quite a bit.

j

Oh yeah!!! and just to be difficult I do believe most kickstands lean left

As a civilian pilot, I'll take just a bit of an issue with the FAA doing well. The FAA has privatized a lot over the last year, and things are improving because of it. The FAA is bloated and unable to account for its budget, and has been so for longer than I've been flying. It is also beholden to the large air carriers, and to such an extent that it has done damage to general aviation in some areas, and fixing the damage will take quite an effort. As far as traffic separation, I'll say yes, they do fine with that. The inability to modernize is because of an unwillingness to modernize, not because of a lack of funds or hardware. Like any government organization, they don't move with the times, because they can't move with the times. Sadly, like most, they want to blame it on lack of funds so they can justify the next raise in their budget; and so they skew reports and point fingers everywhere but at themselves (which seems to have gone from a petulant transparency to the national pastime over the last 16 years) without really giving any good explanation of what, exactly do they want, and where, exactly is their money.

Being a full-time soldier, I can bet I don't need to explain what else I think of the government's ability do to things well.

On a lighter note (and boy does this thread need it!) those of you not a fan of Obama's appointment may appreciate this:

Barack Obama Word Association is Today's BIG Thing - OCT 31, 2008

Enjoy