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unhappycamper

(60,364 posts)
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 08:05 AM Sep 2013

Another $100,000,000 Down The Toilet

http://www.stripes.com/news/marine-corps/marines-osprey-damaged-beyond-repair-in-nevada-crash-1.239322

Marines: Osprey damaged beyond repair in Nevada crash
By Travis Tritten
Stars and Stripes
Published: September 4, 2013

CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – The Marine Corps said Wednesday that an MV-22 Osprey crash in Nevada last month resulted in the complete loss of the aircraft but the investigation into the cause of the incident remains ongoing.
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Another $100,000,000 Down The Toilet (Original Post) unhappycamper Sep 2013 OP
What if we had used that money to fund something the People could use over & over again, CrispyQ Sep 2013 #1
American culture is sick and has been cheapened. R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #2
"Robots of Dawn" was one of my favorite stories. CrispyQ Sep 2013 #3
There are many laws that we should abide by, but it seems that we live in R. Daneel Olivaw Sep 2013 #4
I hate those fucking things--flying coffins. MADem Sep 2013 #5

CrispyQ

(38,245 posts)
1. What if we had used that money to fund something the People could use over & over again,
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 08:10 AM
Sep 2013

like a bridge, or a road, or a library, or a school. Oh, my bad! Those kind of investments return value to the community, not bucks to the 1% bank accounts.

Our values as a country are perverted.

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
2. American culture is sick and has been cheapened.
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 08:22 AM
Sep 2013

One can point out that there is a lot of good, but I can see a tremendous amount of evil that continues to multiply and fester.

CrispyQ

(38,245 posts)
3. "Robots of Dawn" was one of my favorite stories.
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 08:50 AM
Sep 2013

I love Daneel, Giskard & Bailey stories. Gis is my fave, though. The Zeroth Law.

Perhaps we should try to live by the four laws, huh?

 

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts)
4. There are many laws that we should abide by, but it seems that we live in
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 09:29 AM
Sep 2013

a multi-tiered system where power and privilege are the least answerable to law while they expect the great majority to be subject to them.

And all the while we a fed a steady diet of reality show shit, depressed economy, rigged financial systems, corporate malfeasance, lobbyist fellating politicians and blind indolent cheerleaders to the whole lot above.

Laws are for the little guy.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
5. I hate those fucking things--flying coffins.
Thu Sep 5, 2013, 11:24 AM
Sep 2013

The entire procurement process, stretching across not just decades but two centuries (the Twentieth and Twenty First) was a disgrace.

Reminds me of that tank movie that starred Olympia Dukakis and Kelsey Grammar...

Makes the phrase "Stay and Die For BHI" have new meaning....

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