Okay, okay, you win, Repukes. We MUST cut government spending.

[Naturyl]

So... Let's start here:

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Nice building.

I think I'd prefer it as maybe a triangle.

[aquart]

2. We could sell it and rent it back for a charter school.

[zeemike]

5. See?...who said we did not have brilliant ideas. n/t

[Recursion]

6. It's a horrible building. The dust is toxic.

One morning I wandered around for four hours trying to find the right concourse to get to the office I needed.

It was built too fast, with too little planning, and was already obsolete (and, ironically, too small) by the time it was finished.

[ProudDad]

3. K&R

The home and source of most of USAmerica's problems!

[Oceansaway]

4. K&R...n/t

[hollowdweller]

7. Really Defense Spending is one area where what we spend is WAY OUTSIDE

What anybody else spends. I don't see it really makes us any more secure than any other place. Maybe less.

[Lagomorph]

16. The Defense contractors deliver...

...our innovations keep leapfrogging the rest of the world. Then again the question arises, is it worth it? Our casualties run about 10% of previous wars, but I see the same "mission creep" that dragged us down in Vietnam. We went to Afghanistan to capture or kill Osama, we should have done that and left Afghanistan to the Afghanis.

The R&D is expensive enough, implementing it is horrendously expensive. The small aqmount of surplus equipment available to the general public is usually just off the shelf commercial equipment. The exotic stuff gets destroyed and recycled.

I've seen helicopters and fighter jets in private hands, but those are usually bought up by the rich, who are selling better stuff to the military. They are so well connected in the trade, all they have to do is ask and then write the check.

Some of the really cool stuff gets commercialized, lithium batteries for example, and I've read about new processes with composites and metal foam that I hope can be commercialized.

I watch the technology and strategies for it's use, as a personal interest. Not so much weapons (you don't have to watch for them, they're everywhere), but logistics, where there is the potential to actually make life better.

[RC]

8. Turn in into low income apartments.

Or maybe high security prison for republican criminals. Nobody would be tossing anything to the prisoners in that court yard.

[HillbillyBob]

9. IN that case the majority of the upper 'management' can become

inmates..wouldn't have to move them just put up bars i their current location. The Rs get along with them so well im sure they won't mind sharing quarters, and showers! Ya know how those R congress critters luv their military fetishes.

[progressoid]

10. Why do you libruls hate Amurica?11!?

Don't you know that true patriotism is at the end of a gun.

[Nodak]

11. close bases

How about we save defense money by closing all overseas bases, use those troops to guard our borders, and tell the rest of the world to take care of itself

[Canuckistanian]

12. Do you really need FIVE-sided buildings?

Why not cut it down to FOUR sides? I've heard that four walls will do in a pinch.

Just a suggestion.

[nc4bo]

13. K&R.

:kick:

[dkf]

14. Their idea of cutting military spending is reducing health benefits, housing, hazard pay,

For our vets. Be careful what you ask for.

[Bigmack]

15. The Seattle Times had a piece about...

a new Navy drone boat being tested in Puget Sound. You should have seen the dumbshit comments on the story.

Freedom isn't Free... etc.

It's an Empire.... and people refuse to see it.