PBS, CPB, NPR, GOP

[MRT144]

Is there any counter-advertising available that could discourage Albie from joining the military?

Seriously, HC is so full of hot air and argumentative sometimes. We need less albies, not more.

[The Mad Monk]

In this scenario, our house is crammed full of gas cans to the point of looking like an episode of Hoarders.

Our military budget is ****ing unsustainable. As is SS and Medicare. Trying to fix the budget by going after ****ing pissant PBS is the worst kind of demagoguery.

Gas vials. Tiny ones.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I find it intriguing how the first priority for Dinner is to cut something that is a core government function.

I think education is just as much a core government function as defense - we don't exactly live in a state of nature.

[MRT144]

Why arent we doing more with our military, like stealing the precious hat resources of bolivia?

[Jaguar]

I prefer Hugo Chavez's hats. And his parrot.

[The Mad Monk]

I don't believe that, but Sesame Street is hardly an example of something that will die without government funding.

HEY IMRAN, OVER HERE! THE ARGUMENT IS OVER HERE!!!

[Hauldren Collider]

Is there any counter-advertising available that could discourage Albie from joining the military?

I don't see how this has to do with what I said. On campus here at CMU, google contacts and sends recruiters to far more candidates than it would ever hope to hire. It advertises its positions very broadly and to people who have no hope of getting a position there. They do this because by casting a wide net they can find more qualified candidates. The military is no different.

[DinoDoc]

I think education is just as much a core government function as defense - we don't exactly live in a state of nature.

Education is more a state function rather than a federal one though.

[Hauldren Collider]

Seriously, HC is so full of hot air and argumentative sometimes. We need less albies, not more.

Then we should tell the military to hire less people, not to cease recruiting methods that it finds effective.

[MRT144]

I think education is just as much a core government function as defense - we don't exactly live in a state of nature.

Get out Imran, anything worth doing is worth doing for profit.

[MRT144]

Then we should tell the military to hire less people, not to cease recruiting methods that it finds effective.

But the advertising is the low hanging fruit. DUH.

[Hauldren Collider]

No, the low hanging fruit is "you are allowed x personel for the next 2 years", not "Hi, I'm congress, and I'm here to micromanage your recruiting strategy"

[The Mad Monk]

[Hauldren Collider]

We actually need to give the army MORE leeway to set its own budget, not less. Most of the big boondoggles of the army are forced upon it by Congress as jobs programs in their districts and do nothing for national defense. I read an article about a year ago saying that the Army wanted to pay soldiers less, hire fewer people, but Congress wouldn't let them. There was another article about how the Marines didn't want some very advanced equipment, but Congress insisted on them purchasing it because a powerful member of Appropriations stood to have a factory close in his district.

Congressional oversight is important. Congressional micromanagement is bad.

[MRT144]

No, the low hanging fruit is "you are allowed x personel for the next 2 years", not "Hi, I'm congress, and I'm here to micromanage your recruiting strategy"

For someone so smart, you can be really obtuse when it comes to the way things work. MITT ****ING ROMNEY IS ADVOCATING LOW HANGING FRUIT CUTS. NASCAR ADVERTS ARE LOW HANGING FRUIT. GETTING LEGISLATION TO FREEZE MILITARY HIRING IS NOT LOW HANGING BY VIRTUE OF HOW POLITICS IN AMERICA WORK.

I wish I could slap your face until you possessed knowledge through hand to face osmosis.