Bush and company certainly have done their share of looting, but let's not forget that Congress holds the purse strings.
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Bush and company certainly have done their share of looting, but let's not forget that Congress holds the purse strings.
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Mm-hmm. And the Republican congress that rubber-stamped everything Bush & Co. wanted was also supposed to provide oversight. That's in their job description.Originally Posted by drone
Honestly, given the level of waste and corruption, I would be quite happy if everybody who had anything to do with it were subject to lunar exile.
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I'd prefer solar exile myself.
We can only hope that Congress (as an institution) learns from this and refuses to grant such free rei(g)n to the executive in the future. Or at least reads the small print.
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I'm with you on this one Lemur, though it'd probably be expensive to send them all to the moon I bet it'd be cheaper than Iraq and all of the pork that they've passed.
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Why not send them on a "field trip" to Iraq and leave them alone in bad parts of Baghdad? Oh, and announce to the Iraqi's that these are the guys who've been taking money from them...
Problem solved, cheap and efficiently!
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That's murderish behavior.
The moon is much more practical, I'm considering to put them in charge to that planned moon base.
They will work on the spot of course and I suspect that the incentive of getting the base fully working, to prevent themself from actually suffer the consequences of failing, should be enough to make them do thier job properly.
And should they fail, well Uesugi is on to something here.
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So, what is corrupted, inefficient and with no democratic control? Funny enough, few years ago I was told it was the UN in Iraq…
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