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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatched about 15 min of Colbert with Woodward
He raised the same examples and the end add something that I have not heard:
We have an anti missile system called THAAD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_Defense
We have it stationed in S. Korea, Woodward said. Then Whiny Donny wanted to know how much it cost - $1 billion - and then found out that we are leasing the land.
We are paying for the land, he complained. Move it to Portland..
trueblue2007
(17,193 posts)PORTLAND , OREGON ..... City of Roses ....NOT City of missile system
question everything
(47,432 posts)never mind that it would lose all of its deterrent but who cares..
trueblue2007
(17,193 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)For Trump, everything is a business decision. Which means everything has to be a profit center or get rid of it. Education? Not gonna pay off for years, if ever. Cut it to the bone if it can't be eliminated entirely. Leasing land in South Korea for an anti-missile system? Where's the profit in that? The South Koreans won't sell us the land? Move it to Portland!
The man is an utter nincompoop.
ProfessorGAC
(64,852 posts)This is a guy that could have done nothing but invest the inheritance and ended up with more than 2x what is claimed.
No BKO. No stiffing creditors. No branding. No silly reality show. No russian mob. Nothing.
And then be worth 2 or 3x more money at the end, and that's if we believe the advertised net worth. Might be more like 10x.
He was a crappy business man, and a crappier POTUS.
question everything
(47,432 posts)and since then when voters were yearning for someone to run a government like business.
The sick, the elderly do not produce revenue, losing assets, so get rid of it.