Question by I am Real: Do you agree Main Street also need a bailout?
If Greedy Wall Street, the creators of our present economic mess are being bailout by the Government, then it only makes sense for Main Street/Middle Class Taxpayers who will foot the 0 billion to also get some sort of bailout. After all, greedy wall street made millions in all the bad mortgage backed securities, CDOs, derivatives, credit swaps etc thus whether they are bailed out or not, it will still be a win situation for them.
On the hand, hardworking middle class have lost half of their life savings, 401k, have to prolong their retirement years, have to take second jobs to cover their health care cost and tuition for their children…this absolutely doesn’t make sense!
For the bailout to work and directly impact the financial system, I propose 1/4th of the 0 billion to be given to main street in these forms:
a) another round of rebate check, so people can buy gifts for their family during the holidays which will raise revenues for retail shops;
b) get two months relief from paying mortgages and rent, so that good citizens who with hard work have not defaulted their mortgage payments will be rewarded and in the end it will help these same mortgage companies that will are trying to bail out to reduce the number of default payments;
c) tax credit for everyone so that families can regain back some of their 401k savings that they’ve lost on the stock market;
d) 1 year tuition re-reimbursement, zero percent loans for college and graduate schools to encourage people with dead-locked jobs to pursue other careers that can lift them up to upper middle class level and help them compete globally and chase good jobs in China, India and Europe;
e) Relief for people who pay live in States that pay “Vehicle Tax”, zero percent auto loans or rebate checks for people to pay their next car insurance.
f) Since the CEO’s outrageous salaries will be reduced, it is only fair for that surplus to be used to raise hardworking employees’ salary to 7%-10% annually against inflation. The current 3%-5% annual increases is ridiculous especially when few people are given based on office politics while senior management get millions in bonuses, free jet flights, re-reimbursement for the luxurious trips and lunches.
Again, Main Street need a break, even if the 0 bailout is given to Wall Street, they will still squander it and buy more corporate jets, big mansions in cayman island, Bahamas, Hawaii, Bermuda and purchases of islands in Dubai and the Carri beans. Rather , when the money is given to main street, the money will have “IMMEDIATE, DIRECT on our financial system to stimulate the economy since it will be locally used to pay bills, spent on gas and Christmas shopping. Please petition to your local Government Reps so Main Street, the innocent people will also be bailed out!!
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Best answer:
Answer by The Lady We are pretty tough, we probably will make it, but it would be nice to have a pot to pee in.
Question by I am Real: Do you agree Main Street also need a bailout?
If Greedy Wall Street, the creators of our present economic mess are being bailout by the Government, then it only makes sense for Main Street/Middle Class Taxpayers who will foot the 0 billion to also get some sort of bailout. After all, greedy wall street made millions in all the bad mortgage backed securities, CDOs, derivatives, credit swaps etc thus whether they are bailed out or not, it will still be a win situation for them.
On the hand, hardworking middle class have lost half of their life savings, 401k, have to prolong their retirement years, have to take second jobs to cover their health care cost and tuition for their children…this absolutely doesn’t make sense!
For the bailout to work and directly impact the financial system, I propose 1/4th of the 0 billion to be given to main street in these forms:
a) another round of rebate check, so people can buy gifts for their family during the holidays which will raise revenues for retail shops;
b) get two months relief from paying mortgages and rent, so that good citizens who with hard work have not defaulted their mortgage payments will be rewarded and in the end it will help these same mortgage companies that will are trying to bail out to reduce the number of default payments;
c) tax credit for everyone so that families can regain back some of their 401k savings that they’ve lost on the stock market;
d) 1 year tuition re-reimbursement, zero percent loans for college and graduate schools to encourage people with dead-locked jobs to pursue other careers that can lift them up to upper middle class level and help them compete globally and chase good jobs in China, India and Europe;
e) Relief for people who pay live in States that pay “Vehicle Tax”, zero percent auto loans or rebate checks for people to pay their next car insurance.
f) Since the CEO’s outrageous salaries will be reduced, it is only fair for that surplus to be used to raise hardworking employees’ salary to 7%-10% annually against inflation. The current 3%-5% annual increases is ridiculous especially when few people are given based on office politics while senior management get millions in bonuses, free jet flights, re-reimbursement for the luxurious trips and lunches.
Again, Main Street need a break, even if the 0 bailout is given to Wall Street, they will still squander it and buy more corporate jets, big mansions in cayman island, Bahamas, Hawaii, Bermuda and purchases of islands in Dubai and the Carri beans. Rather , when the money is given to main street, the money will have “IMMEDIATE, DIRECT on our financial system to stimulate the economy since it will be locally used to pay bills, spent on gas and Christmas shopping. Please petition to your local Government Reps so Main Street, the innocent people will also be bailed out!!
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Best answer:
Answer by Ms G I certainly do not like Fat Cats getting ‘Fatter’and that’s what will happen.The honest to God “Slim Jim’s” that were filled with lies when they entered their mortgage agreement, loans, etc. will get no relief to help them.
But To Bail out is the ONLY answer~ Without it, a domino effect of more Banks closing, fewer loans available for payroll’s of Small Business’ (therefore More Job losses), less college grants ( education goes further down hill),More Health care cuts leading to “Unhealthy Americans….
I could go on & on…..Its “Damned if we do” and if we don’t it will be worse.
Do I think it will solve the US crisis forever? Absolutely not! We can not trust our government to be truthfull about anything, and if they were, the Media will be sure to put doubts in people’s minds again.
This is now a world of greed, tyrants, and terrorists ( in more ways than al Qa’ida ) Its too late to put the Blame on anyone. Childish Republicans and Democrats spend more time on “passing the buck” and “digging up the dirt” than on any one program to help ( save) this planet and humanities ability to exist.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I do believe we are in for a recession regardless of whats done or who is our new president.
I only hope I am proved wrong! But right now, today, we have no choice~
Make the call. Write the Emails. Hope that ‘Big Brother’ does a better job of watching where our money on Main Street goes this time. Prove me wrong and I’ll be a happier healthier American.
From another Distressed Citizen Today who also worries where my kids will be in 5 years
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Marine Week Boston, 2010: Bell AH-1N SuperCobra attack helicopter’s exhaust port, with BEWARE OF BLAST warning sign Image by Chris Devers
Pasting from Wikipedia about the helicopter:
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The AH-1 Cobra (company designation: Bell 209) is a two-bladed, single engine attack helicopter manufactured by Bell. It shares a common engine, transmission and rotor system with the older UH-1 Iroquois. The AH-1 is also referred to as the HueyCobra or Snake.
The AH-1 was the backbone of the United States Army‘s attack helicopter fleet, but has been replaced by the AH-64 Apache in Army service. Upgraded versions continue to fly with the militaries of several other nations. The AH-1 twin engine versions remain in service with United States Marine Corps as the service’s primary attack helicopter. Surplus AH-1 helicopters have been converted for fighting forest fires. The United States Forest Service refers to their program as the Firewatch Cobra. Garlick Helicopters also converts surplus AH-1s for forest firefighting under the name, FireSnake.[2]
[...]
The Bell AH-1 SuperCobra is a twin-engine attack helicopter based on the US Army’s AH-1 Cobra. The twin Cobra family includes the AH-1J SeaCobra, the AH-1T Improved SeaCobra, and the AH-1W SuperCobra. The AH-1W is the backbone of the United States Marine Corps‘s attack helicopter fleet, but will be replaced in service by the AH-1Z Viperupgrade in the next decade.
Question by Elle: Would Sarah Palin help McCain on energy policy?
Palin’s tenure is noted for her independence from big oil companies, while still promoting resource development. Palin has announced plans to create a new sub-cabinet group of advisors, to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions within Alaska.
Shortly after taking office, Palin rescinded an appointment by Murkowski of his former chief of staff Jim Clark to the Alaska Natural Gas Development Authority, one of thirty-five appointments made by Murkowski in the last hour of his administration that she reversed. Clark later pled guilty to conspiring with a defunct oil-field-services company to channel money into Frank Murkowski’s re-election campaign.
In March 2007, Palin presented the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act (AGIA) as the new legal vehicle for building a natural gas pipeline from the state’s North Slope. Only one legislator, Representative Ralph Samuels, voted against the measure, and in June Palin signed it into law. On January 5, 2008, Palin announced that a Canadian company, Transcanada, was the sole AGIA-compliant applicant.
In response to high oil and gas prices, and in response to the resulting state government budget surplus, Palin proposed giving Alaskans 0-a-month energy debit cards. She also proposed providing grants to electrical utilities so that they would reduce customers’ rates. She subsequently dropped the debit card proposal, and in its place she proposed to send Alaskans ,200 directly and eliminate the gas tax.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin
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Answer by natparklover She sounds like a maverick to me. Her pick will also signal the need to DRILL DRILL DRILL.
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Question by Daniel L: Are right wingers gearing up for an ourburst of violence over losing a presidential election?
I’m starting to think righties are losing their minds because they lost to a black guy, theyre bringing guns to town halls, theyre screaming about how they oppose govt run healthcare while being on Medicare themselves.
It seems to me they don’t understand the issues at all and are just using the issue of the day (health reform) as a vehicle to rile the base and vent their anger.
What is their plan on anything?? Healthcare, economy, foreign policy, it is almost as if the righties have admitted that their number one goal is to ensure the failure of their country because they hate the black guy in the White House.
And before one of you righties says “Oh so if we disagree with Obama were racist” remember, you cheered on Bush for 8 yrs…………….he added 6 trillion to the debt, signed 2 bailouts into law, never vetoed one spending bill and took us from surplus to a trillion dollar deficit……
It just doesnt jive righties…………..you had 8 yrs to protest spending, I remember you praising Bush and telling us he was great……..I smell right wing fakery.
Righties avoid talking about race at all costs, because they know they NEED minority voters if they wanna win again…………..
But why would a minority vote for an all white all male all southern party???
GOP = 2 elected blacks in 87 years
GOP = 5 elected hispanics today
GOP = a racist southern all white party that belongs in he dustbin of history
Best answer:
Answer by Marko They are acting like whiny kids… with semi-automatic weapons.
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Marine Week Boston, 2010: Bell AH-1W SuperCobra helicopter on Boston Common shortly before it took off Image by Chris Devers
Pasting from Wikipedia about the AH-1 SuperCobra helicopter:
• • • • •
The AH-1 Cobra (company designation: Bell 209) is a two-bladed, single engine attack helicopter manufactured by Bell. It shares a common engine, transmission and rotor system with the older UH-1 Iroquois. The AH-1 is also referred to as the HueyCobra or Snake.
The AH-1 was the backbone of the United States Army‘s attack helicopter fleet, but has been replaced by the AH-64 Apache in Army service. Upgraded versions continue to fly with the militaries of several other nations. The AH-1 twin engine versions remain in service with United States Marine Corps as the service’s primary attack helicopter. Surplus AH-1 helicopters have been converted for fighting forest fires. The United States Forest Service refers to their program as the Firewatch Cobra. Garlick Helicopters also converts surplus AH-1s for forest firefighting under the name, FireSnake.[2]
[...]
The Bell AH-1 SuperCobra is a twin-engine attack helicopter based on the US Army’s AH-1 Cobra. The twin Cobra family includes the AH-1J SeaCobra, the AH-1T Improved SeaCobra, and the AH-1W SuperCobra. The AH-1W is the backbone of the United States Marine Corps‘s attack helicopter fleet, but will be replaced in service by the AH-1Z Viperupgrade in the next decade.
Question by fearlessbynature: We want to have a baby, but…?
My husband and I have been together for a year…I am 22; he is 32. We live in a nice, two-bedroom mobile home, which is rent-to-own; it’ll be ours in eight years. We are settled into our jobs; I am a daycare teacher, and he works at an Italian restaurant as a pasta cook. We have a running vehicle; it’s old, but it gets us to work and back! Now, we are both considering the next big step: parenthood. [I know I’m young, but I am not a party girl, so I feel that I am mature and ready to be a mother, a good mother.]
As much as I want a child, however, I am terrified! My biggest concern is money.
First, I have no problems with living frugally. In fact, I live thusly…I buy clothes from Goodwill to save us money, and we budget each month. We actually end up with a surplus of several hundred dollars per month, every month. [I plan to have a couple thousand dollars in savings before the child we may have is born.]
Admittedly, though, I doubt we will ever make more than ,000 a year, combined. Does this mean we should never have a child? I hope not! But, it’s the harsh reality I am facing. What if there is never a “right time” for us?
I hope I don’t sound like money is the most important thing. I just want to do what’s best for our child…
Best answer:
Answer by Jenn You can figure out how to make it work. When you are ready things will fall into place. It sounds like you know how to stretch your dollar… and that is what counts. There are tons of people who make twice as much money as you do who don’t know what it means to sacrifice and live frugally. Love and dedication are the keys to making a family work not a big paycheck.
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Question by I am Real: Do you agree Main Street also need a bailout?
If Greedy Wall Street, the creators of our present economic mess are being bailout by the Government, then it only makes sense for Main Street/Middle Class Taxpayers who will foot the 0 billion to also get some sort of bailout. After all, greedy wall street made millions in all the bad mortgage backed securities, CDOs, derivatives, credit swaps etc thus whether they are bailed out or not, it will still be a win situation for them.
On the hand, hardworking middle class have lost half of their life savings, 401k, have to prolong their retirement years, have to take second jobs to cover their health care cost and tuition for their children…this absolutely doesn’t make sense!
For the bailout to work and directly impact the financial system, I propose 1/4th of the 0 billion to be given to main street in these forms:
a) another round of rebate check, so people can buy gifts for their family during the holidays which will raise revenues for retail shops;
b) get two months relief from paying mortgages and rent, so that good citizens who with hard work have not defaulted their mortgage payments will be rewarded and in the end it will help these same mortgage companies that will are trying to bail out to reduce the number of default payments;
c) tax credit for everyone so that families can regain back some of their 401k savings that they’ve lost on the stock market;
d) 1 year tuition re-reimbursement, zero percent loans for college and graduate schools to encourage people with dead-locked jobs to pursue other careers that can lift them up to upper middle class level and help them compete globally and chase good jobs in China, India and Europe;
e) Relief for people who pay live in States that pay “Vehicle Tax”, zero percent auto loans or rebate checks for people to pay their next car insurance.
f) Since the CEO’s outrageous salaries will be reduced, it is only fair for that surplus to be used to raise hardworking employees’ salary to 7%-10% annually against inflation. The current 3%-5% annual increases is ridiculous especially when few people are given based on office politics while senior management get millions in bonuses, free jet flights, re-reimbursement for the luxurious trips and lunches.
Again, Main Street need a break, even if the 0 bailout is given to Wall Street, they will still squander it and buy more corporate jets, big mansions in cayman island, Bahamas, Hawaii, Bermuda and purchases of islands in Dubai and the Carri beans. Rather , when the money is given to main street, the money will have “IMMEDIATE, DIRECT on our financial system to stimulate the economy since it will be locally used to pay bills, spent on gas and Christmas shopping. Please petition to your local Government Reps so Main Street, the innocent people will also be bailed out!!
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Best answer:
Answer by DKM What you are suggesting was the attempt with the Bush tax rebate. This rebate resulted in a modest effect. Maybe because it was too little, too late, or maybe because it was just too little. But it showed us that if the rebates are given to people that have enough money to pay taxes, there most likely going to save their money or spend it over a LONG period of time, resulting in minimal effects to the real economy.
But once everybody spends there rebates, there is nothing else unless the economy rebounds. What they should do to when giving people money is force them to pay down there credit cards and what not. But that’s no guarantee they won’t run them right up again.
But this getting past the real issue, the reason the credit crisis is so bad is because thousands of americans have defaulted on there 250,000 dollar homes + interest. Banks gave money to the american public (those in the real estate industry) for assets that weren’t even close to the value of the loan and then these individuals borrowed more money based on this income or in the “false equity” in there homes.
750 billion dollars will pay for over a million 300,000 dollar homes so that banks, law firms, contractors, etc., can start paying there employees again. Atleast the ones that weren’t hired as a result of this mass investing of valueless assets.
Sorry for the horrible typing, I’m doing three things at once.
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Question by buttersbidges: zombie inquiry: your gameplan?
you can have one machine gun, one sniper, and one pistol. what would they be? you can choose one area such as desert ocean island hotel strip club new york la china ect what would it be? you can choose one vehicle such as warthog, landrover, hummer, hybrid, el camino ect what would it be? and you can choose how many people, ethnicity, age, gender, social class ect? to finish it off you can tell your own story.
I would have an RPD(light machine gun practically ak-47 with round drum aka “choppers” with a silencer and inferred scope), pistol would be a clock 18(2 automatic pistol with a silencer and long clip), for the sniper i would like M21 EBR(all of these weapons are on modern warfare 2).
The setting would be in Miami, Florida. We would take a H1 Hummer. The attack would hit us after a long night of “blowing down” in a night club. This all takes place in the year 1966. After the attack that spreads like a cold we would hit up the army surplus store, bank, and pawn shop(wed need masks(for the bong)). The supplies that we would have would be a pound of medically grown marijuana from amsterdam, a huge bag of medicine from walgreens, ten cartons of cigarettes, twenty bottles of alcohol, and lots of mushrooms for when we get to south america. It would be a car full of 5 people. one would be myself, the second would be my friend whoever that may be at the time we are “blowing down”, a seventy five year old black man who had lost his wife, a baby, and an asian whore named “kikky kong”. all of us, with the exception of the baby we named tito, would be bad ass fighters.
After we had gotten the supplies, killed hundred of thousands of zombies, and found women, we would call enriko and he would take us in his cigar boat/ and airplane to peru where my friends and the women we found would start a new civilization.
The zombies would be similar to gooks.
You may be, or maybe, wondering where we would be killing the hundreds of thousands of zombies. we would be stationed at a light house waiting for enriko pedro saint rickie ricardo emanuel joseph gonzalez
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Answer by Conceited Bastard (suspended) you put a lot of thought into this
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Question by Windmaker: What amount, if any, should an almost victim pay someone who saved him from foolishly paying for a scam?
A long time boarder (in his early sixties) with a 76 year old elderly gentleman at his residence learned his landlord had just signed a ,000 dollar contract for his home driveway with an asphalt contractor who had just appeared from nowhere saying he had an oversupply of asphalt from another job he had just finished and would begin paving this driveway at a highly reduced rate if he would just allow him to start immediately with the surplus from the other finished job and give him a ,000 check.
Hearing the price and the story shortly afterwards, and due to the fact it was after business hours on a Friday , the boarder immediately went to his computer and searched for a National Asphalt Contractor’s Trade Assoc. website. Sure enough he found a warning on the home page for customers to beware of contractors appearing unexpectedly saying they had a surplus from another job that they would sell cheap…it’s a scam approach. The boarder then printed out the warning and took it to the landlord who, when uncomfortable concern had initially been expressed by the boarder about the contractor’s price and his approach tactics, replied assuredly he’d assessed the cost of an asphalt driveway some time before and that he thought the price was OK. (He admitted later that he had not really done this) He also said that he had already signed the contract and that it was too late to do anything.
To make a long story short(er), the boarder had to wait until the following Monday (contractor appeared and started the job on a late Friday…that’s part of the scam strategy) to contact the State’s Attorney General’s office. When the contractor returned to finish the job late Monday morning the boarder confronted him, took his vehicle license number and told him he would be contacted by an inspector (name given to him). The contractor was obviously shaken and asked the boarder what he would have to do to not have to talk to that inspector. After we all, landlord included, sat down inside the home office to discuss my suggestion of doing the whole job at .00 per sq./ft. the phone rang. It was the inspector wanting to first speak with the home owner, and then he asked to talk to the contractor. When the inspector from the AG’s Consumer Protection Office had finished talking to this contractor (and with whom he had confronted on occasions prior to this incident), the contractor agreed to the following:
1. Repave the already paved portion of the driveway and finish the rest at a depth of 3″ (instead of the 1-2 inches he had started with).
2. He would not only tear up the previous contract, but write another at a charge of only .00 per sq/ft of surface area for the entire job (the boarder recommended figure)
3. After measuring for the total job area and having us agree to that assessment, he would return the difference in cash between that job cost and the ,000 the customer had previously paid him.
4. He would make sure the customer was completely satisfied in every way before leaving and after-wards.
Thanks to the intervention of his long-time boarder (and,yes, with the clout of the AG’s office) this elderly gentleman had essentially recovered approximately ,400 which he would have foolishly overspent on his driveway, and even ended up with a better quality (thicker) driveway to boot.
[The initial contract called for ,000, a ,000 final payment when the job was done, after an initial ,000 payment to begin. The contractor instead refunded approx ,400 in cash when the new job cost was calculated to be approx. ,600]
How much, if anything at all, do you think would have been fair for the elderly man to offer his boarder as a reward or compensation for having intervened, despite his initial dis-concern, and who’s efforts had saved him ,400 from being foolishly wasted…not to mention also getting the better quality, thicker driveway
Just so you’ll know, yes, I’m the boarder and the elderly gentleman never offered a penny. Comments about this elderly gentleman’s behavior aren’t necessary or sought by me, but I would like several comments on what people of different backgrounds think would have been a fair monetary tribute to offer me as a gesture of appreciation, or whether you don’t think a monetary offer/reward was necessary or appropriate.
Best answer:
Answer by ned flanders im not sure he should have paid you money, but i do think that he should have definitely done something. at least a letter expressing appreciation or something. if someone saved me that much money, i think i would have gotten them a gift card and would have made sure that person knew how deeply i appreciated his intervention. that’s not ok that he did nothing.
and good for you intervening, you are a good citizen!
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Marine Week Boston, 2010: Bell AH-1N SuperCobra attack helicopter with Isaac at the back pilot’s controls Image by Chris Devers
Pasting from Wikipedia about the helicopter:
• • • • •
The AH-1 Cobra (company designation: Bell 209) is a two-bladed, single engine attack helicopter manufactured by Bell. It shares a common engine, transmission and rotor system with the older UH-1 Iroquois. The AH-1 is also referred to as the HueyCobra or Snake.
The AH-1 was the backbone of the United States Army‘s attack helicopter fleet, but has been replaced by the AH-64 Apache in Army service. Upgraded versions continue to fly with the militaries of several other nations. The AH-1 twin engine versions remain in service with United States Marine Corps as the service’s primary attack helicopter. Surplus AH-1 helicopters have been converted for fighting forest fires. The United States Forest Service refers to their program as the Firewatch Cobra. Garlick Helicopters also converts surplus AH-1s for forest firefighting under the name, FireSnake.[2]
[...]
The Bell AH-1 SuperCobra is a twin-engine attack helicopter based on the US Army’s AH-1 Cobra. The twin Cobra family includes the AH-1J SeaCobra, the AH-1T Improved SeaCobra, and the AH-1W SuperCobra. The AH-1W is the backbone of the United States Marine Corps‘s attack helicopter fleet, but will be replaced in service by the AH-1Z Viperupgrade in the next decade.
Question by man o man: The American Dream?
Is this just an after thought?
to me it seems we are more repressed then ever.
i mean seriously , immigrants get to pursue this dream by not paying taxes for 7 years.
While we have to work so hard for so little with this struggling economy.
Paying the insane amount of taxes that the average American has to pay is just silly.
I understand we have to pay some taxes to keep our roads top notch and have police and so on.
But the roads in my city are garbage pothole littered messes(after all we are paying for this)
The police are like a terrorist organization( Fear mongering, from speed traps , following us to force a mistake , trying to invade our rights as free people just to make us pay even more than we are already paying in taxes via tickets.
Then we have vehicle registration (i thought this was suppose to be for the road repairs? in Milwaukee there was a surplus yet this year they raised it by .00 per vehicle)
top this with rising costs and falling dollars we are in troubl
Best answer:
Answer by dannorwest My taxes are way too low. I get large refunds every year because most of my income is deductible. My state has no sales tax. My property taxes are way too low because of some kind of an agricultural loophole and I’m not a farmer. No wonder our government has to borrow all that money from China.
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Marine Week Boston, 2010: Bell AH-1N SuperCobra attack helicopter at dusk Image by Chris Devers
Pasting from Wikipedia about the helicopter:
• • • • •
The AH-1 Cobra (company designation: Bell 209) is a two-bladed, single engine attack helicopter manufactured by Bell. It shares a common engine, transmission and rotor system with the older UH-1 Iroquois. The AH-1 is also referred to as the HueyCobra or Snake.
The AH-1 was the backbone of the United States Army‘s attack helicopter fleet, but has been replaced by the AH-64 Apache in Army service. Upgraded versions continue to fly with the militaries of several other nations. The AH-1 twin engine versions remain in service with United States Marine Corps as the service’s primary attack helicopter. Surplus AH-1 helicopters have been converted for fighting forest fires. The United States Forest Service refers to their program as the Firewatch Cobra. Garlick Helicopters also converts surplus AH-1s for forest firefighting under the name, FireSnake.[2]
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The Bell AH-1 SuperCobra is a twin-engine attack helicopter based on the US Army’s AH-1 Cobra. The twin Cobra family includes the AH-1J SeaCobra, the AH-1T Improved SeaCobra, and the AH-1W SuperCobra. The AH-1W is the backbone of the United States Marine Corps‘s attack helicopter fleet, but will be replaced in service by the AH-1Z Viperupgrade in the next decade.
Question by Dudak: Do you think this….answers our Economic Problems?
Obama must not have ever played SIM CITY. LOL
I think our economic issues can be solved by doing a few things like:
1. Raising tax on all imported goods and services. This will decrease foreign relations… so what? Make it cheap for them to buy American too!
2. Making sales tax 0.0 on any goods or services made in the United states. Manufactured, distributed by and sold in the U.S.A. This will increase sales for domestically made items. Increasing demand, which will increase the need of employees in America. Nissan, Toyota and other foreign companies have plants in the U.S.A.
3. No citizenship, no job in the U.S.A. We have too many Americans unemployed.
4. Decrease income tax for those who make less than 100,000, and increase income tax a little for the bracket between 100k and 200k, then increase from 200 to 500k, then really increase for 500k and up.
5. Screw the banks! Get our billions back. Their greed in seeing dollar signs on hope-full interest on high-risk loans, is what got them in the shape they are in. So what if they go under. Another bank will form. Hopefully a bank that will not send our Economic Stimulas Money overseas like the billions AIG has sent!
6. Legalize marijuana and tax the heck out ot it. We are spending millions and billions on trying to keep it off the streets. Treat it as beer, wine, and liquor. DUI’s public intoxication, etc.
7. Kill everyone on death row, who has DNA proof of guilt, immediately. This will decrease the money spent on them as well as decrease the murders around the Nation.
8. Make health insurance manditory for every family. The more people we have paying insurance, the cheaper it will be. Insurance companies will begin to have a surplus of money as not everyone will need a doctor every year.
9. Standardize pricing on healthcare. An eye exam should cost X amount for you, the same for me, and the same for oru neighbors. Etc. Etc. Etc. Simply because I’m young and don’t need glasses and my neighbor is old and he needs glasses, is no reason his exam should cost bucks more than mine. Same with an operation, or other procedures.
10. Make manditory clean air factories and transportation vehicles. The pollutions comming from those is contributing to our Global warming which is causing more severe storms, Volcanic activity, polar melting. If not, we will see the end of the world.
Section 9 oru neighbors should be “our neighbors”. Opps, didn’t spell check.
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Answer by Curly50 While I appreciate that you put thought into this.. NO..sorry,,
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Question by Wilfred Fizzlebang: Need someone to check over my Geography?
All you have to do is tell me which ones i got wrong please
1. What is China’s form of currency? (1 point)
Yen
Euro
Ruble
Yuan < 2. Which of the following is not an issue between U.S. and Chinese trade? (1 point)
China's human rights violations
contaminated food and defective imports from China <
attempts by Chinese companies to purchase American businesses
China's trade surplus with the U.S.
3. The largest mass migration in human history has taken place in China. Why? (1 point)
Chinese are seeking political amnesty in other countries.
Chinese are moving from the rural areas to fast-growing suburbs. <
Workers are leaving the rural areas to work in urban factories.
Flooding and other natural disasters have driven millions of Chinese to flee the rural areas.
4. Which trend is true regarding China's economic impact on transportation use? (1 point)
More people are riding bicycles due to increased traffic congestion. <
More people are becoming prosperous and can now afford vehicles.
More people are relying on public transportation due to cheaper cost.
More people are carpooling, resulting in less traffic and reduced levels of smog.
5. As mentioned in the video clip titled New Reality, Old China, peasants in China (1 point)
account for very little of the nation's overall production of food.
are given less opportunities to make profit than ever before due to harsh Communist control by the Chinese government. <
have experienced increased profits due to increased production of food and less economic regulations by the Chinese government.
must give all of their earnings from production to the Chinese government.
6. Which is not a major factor resulting in pollution from increased economic activity in China? (1 point)
More people are driving motor vehicles.
More factories are burning coal.
More farmlands are being cleared. <
More bicycles are being used for traveling purposes.
7. Economic trends in China's Gross Domestic Product over a 50-year period can best be described as (1 point)
a gradual but steady decline in economic activity.
relatively stable with low levels of economic activity from the 1950s to the late 1990s.
a gradual but steady increase in economic activity. <
initially stable with a drastic increase in economic activity starting in the late 1980s.
8. The Communist concept of collectivism has been (1 point)
replaced with ideas of private enterprise due to a booming economy. <
reinforced due to increased levels of poverty.
maintained due to strong, Chinese religious beliefs.
forced onto many Chinese peasants by the government because they have little wealth.
9. China's fishing industry is (1 point)
prospering due to the many efforts to maintain the water's purity.
steadily declining due to increases in demand, which exceeds the quantity of fish that are reproduced annually.
steadily declining due to pollutants being dumped into the water without government regulation. <
steadily declining because Chinese peasants are using water to bathe and wash dirty clothes.
10. Which best describes China's economic impact on living conditions and trends? (1 point)
The standard of living has improved for more people in recent years.
The standard of living has declined for a majority of the population. <
More people are becoming peasants and the rich are not becoming richer.
The population as a whole is becoming equally well off in terms of income.
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Marine Week Boston, 2010: Bell AH-1W SuperCobra attack helicopter taking off from Boston Common, kicking up a huge cloud of dust & debris Image by Chris Devers
Pasting from Wikipedia about the AH-1 SuperCobra helicopter:
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The AH-1 Cobra (company designation: Bell 209) is a two-bladed, single engine attack helicopter manufactured by Bell. It shares a common engine, transmission and rotor system with the older UH-1 Iroquois. The AH-1 is also referred to as the HueyCobra or Snake.
The AH-1 was the backbone of the United States Army‘s attack helicopter fleet, but has been replaced by the AH-64 Apache in Army service. Upgraded versions continue to fly with the militaries of several other nations. The AH-1 twin engine versions remain in service with United States Marine Corps as the service’s primary attack helicopter. Surplus AH-1 helicopters have been converted for fighting forest fires. The United States Forest Service refers to their program as the Firewatch Cobra. Garlick Helicopters also converts surplus AH-1s for forest firefighting under the name, FireSnake.[2]
[...]
The Bell AH-1 SuperCobra is a twin-engine attack helicopter based on the US Army’s AH-1 Cobra. The twin Cobra family includes the AH-1J SeaCobra, the AH-1T Improved SeaCobra, and the AH-1W SuperCobra. The AH-1W is the backbone of the United States Marine Corps‘s attack helicopter fleet, but will be replaced in service by the AH-1Z Viperupgrade in the next decade.
Question by da_finest_eva: well can some one help me with this the explanation of the amount of dericiency?
1.)Secured obligation,including late charges,return check fees and interest,fiance charges or credit service charges due,at date of repossession. and that is ,264.89
2.) (subtraCT)gross dispositon proceeds ,800.00
3.)(equals)Secured obligation after deducting amount in items(2),464.89
4.)(add)Repossession,storage,preparation and dispositon exspenses,including legal fees related to the current disposition of the vehicle.if any. 0.00
5.)(subtract)Other credis or rebates such as insurance refunds,extended warranty or service contract refunds,or post-repossession payments..18
6.)(equals)Deficiency amount(or surplus,if applicable)(if the total of items 2 and 5 exceeds the total of items 1 and 4,a surplus exists.in that event,the amount of the surplus is shown on the line in parenthesis.you will receive a check in this amount.),891.71
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Answer by Herschel K It means they sold your car for 2800, you owed 9,265, tack on storage fees and stuff and after the sale you still owe 6892
Question by steves95008: Best Senior Prank / Ditch day?
So in your senior year, you do anything that was talking about for years to come. The best locally I know is they bought a surplus US Army armored vehicle, parked it in front of the school, pointed the turret at the principal’s office and just left it there. Took them two months to get it moved since it was no longer Army property and it was too heavy for most to tow.
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Answer by address man I know the guys that did that! I visited them in Sing Sing last week!
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Guardian.co.uk | The Observer
November 2, 2008
‘The election of Obama would, at a stroke, refresh our country’s spirit’
It has been an epic campaign for the American Presidency and one which has been scrutinised at close quarters by the US’s finest writers on the New Yorker magazine – the country’s leading journal of politics and culture. Here, in their leader column ahead of the election, the editors of the magazine offer a brilliant analysis of the choice facing America, deconstruct the strengths and weaknesses of the candidates and finish with a powerful endorsement of Barack Obama as the man best suited to answer the grave challenges facing the next President
Never in living memory has an election been more critical than the one fast approaching – that’s the quadrennial cliché, as expected as the balloons and the bombast. And yet when has it ever felt so urgently true? When have so many Americans had so clear a sense that a presidency has – at the levels of competence, vision and integrity – undermined the country and its ideals?
The incumbent administration has distinguished itself for the ages. The presidency of George W Bush is the worst since Reconstruction, so there is no mystery about why the Republican party – which has held dominion over the executive branch of the federal government for the past eight years and the legislative branch for most of that time – has little desire to defend its record, domestic or foreign. The only speaker at the convention in St Paul who uttered more than a sentence or two in support of the President was his wife, Laura. Meanwhile, the nominee, John McCain, played the part of a vaudeville illusionist, asking to be regarded as an apostle of change after years of embracing the essentials of the Bush agenda with ever-increasing ardour.
The Republican disaster begins at home. Even before taking into account whatever fantastically expensive plan eventually emerges to help rescue the financial system from Wall Street’s long-running pyramid schemes, the economic and fiscal picture is bleak. During the Bush administration, the national debt, now approaching trillion, has nearly doubled. Next year’s federal budget is projected to run a 0bn deficit, a precipitous fall from the 0bn surplus that was projected when Bill Clinton left office. Private-sector job creation has been a sixth of what it was under President Clinton. Five million people have fallen into poverty. The number of Americans without health insurance has grown by seven million, while average premiums have nearly doubled. Meanwhile, the principal domestic achievement of the Bush administration has been to shift the relative burden of taxation from the rich to the rest. For the top 1 per cent of us, the Bush tax cuts are worth, on average, about a thousand dollars a week; for the bottom fifth, about a dollar and a half. The unfairness will only increase if the painful, yet necessary, effort to rescue the credit markets ends up preventing the rescue of our healthcare system, our environment and our physical, educational and industrial infrastructure.
At the same time, 150,000 American troops are in Iraq and 33,000 are in Afghanistan. There is still disagreement about the wisdom of overthrowing Saddam Hussein and his horrific regime, but there is no longer the slightest doubt that the Bush administration manipulated, bullied and lied the American public into this war and then mismanaged its prosecution in nearly every aspect. The direct costs, besides an expenditure of more than 0bn, have included the loss of more than 4,000 Americans, the wounding of 30,000, the deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqis and the displacement of four and a half million men, women and children. Only now, after American forces have been fighting for a year longer than they did in the Second World War, is there a glimmer of hope that the conflict in Iraq has entered a stage of fragile stability.
The indirect costs, both of the war in particular and of the administration’s unilateralist approach to foreign policy in general, have also been immense. The torture of prisoners, authorised at the highest level, has been an ethical and a public diplomacy catastrophe. At a moment when the global environment, the global economy and global stability all demand a transition to new sources of energy, the United States has been a global retrograde, wasteful in its consumption and heedless in its policy. Strategically and morally, the Bush administration has squandered the American capacity to counter the example and the swagger of its rivals. China, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and other illiberal states have concluded, each in its own way, that democratic principles and human rights need not be components of a stable, prosperous future. At recent meetings of the United Nations, emboldened despots like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran came to town sneering at our predicament and hailing the ‘end of the American era’.
The election of 2008 is the first in more than half a century in which no incumbent President or Vice-President is on the ballot. There is, however, an incumbent party and that party has been lucky enough to find itself, apparently against the wishes of its ‘base’, with a nominee who evidently disliked George W Bush before it became fashionable to do so. In South Carolina, in 2000, Bush crushed John McCain with a sub rosa primary campaign of such viciousness that McCain lashed out memorably against Bush’s Christian Right allies. So profound was McCain’s anger that in 2004 he flirted with the possibility of joining the Democratic ticket under John Kerry. Bush, who took office as a ‘compassionate conservative’, governed immediately as a rightist ideologue. During that first term, McCain bolstered his reputation, sometimes deserved, as a ‘maverick’ willing to work with Democrats on such issues as normalising relations with Vietnam, campaign finance reform and immigration reform. He co-sponsored, with John Edwards and Edward Kennedy, a patients’ bill of rights. In 2001 and 2003 he voted against the Bush tax cuts. With John Kerry, he co-sponsored a bill raising auto fuel efficiency standards and, with Joseph Lieberman, a cap-and-trade regime on carbon emissions. He was one of a minority of Republicans opposed to unlimited drilling for oil and gas off America’s shores.
Since the 2004 election, however, McCain has moved remorselessly rightwards in his quest for the Republican nomination. He paid obeisance to Jerry Falwell and preachers of his ilk. He abandoned immigration reform, eventually coming out against his own bill. Most shockingly, McCain, who had repeatedly denounced torture under all circumstances, voted in February against a ban on the very techniques of ‘enhanced interrogation’ that he himself once endured in Vietnam – as long as the torturers were civilians employed by the CIA.
On almost every issue, McCain and the Democratic party’s nominee, Barack Obama, speak the generalised language of ‘reform’, but only Obama has provided a convincing, rational and fully developed vision. McCain has abandoned his opposition to the Bush-era tax cuts and has taken up the demagogic call – in the midst of recession and Wall Street calamity, with looming crises in social security, Medicare and Medicaid – for more tax cuts. Bush’s expire in 2011. If McCain, as he has proposed, cuts taxes for corporations and estates, the benefits once more would go disproportionately to the wealthy.
In Washington the craze for pure market triumphalism is over. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson arrived in town (via Goldman Sachs) a Republican, but it seems that he will leave a Democrat. In other words, he has come to see that the abuses that led to the current financial crisis – not least, excessive speculation on borrowed capital – can be fixed only with government regulation and oversight. McCain, who has never evinced much interest in, or knowledge of, economic questions, has had little of substance to say about the crisis. His most notable gesture of concern – a melodramatic call to suspend his campaign and postpone the first presidential debate until the government bail-out plan was ready – soon revealed itself as an empty diversionary tactic.
By contrast, Obama has made a serious study of the mechanics and the history of this economic disaster and of the possibilities of stimulating a recovery. Last March, in New York, in a speech notable for its depth, balance and foresight, he said: ‘A complete disdain for pay-as-you-go budgeting, coupled with a generally scornful attitude towards oversight and enforcement, allowed far too many to put short-term gain ahead of long-term consequences.’ Obama is committed to reforms that value not only the restoration of stability but also the protection of the vast majority of the population, which did not partake of the fruits of the binge years. He has called for greater and more programmatic regulation of the financial system; the creation of a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank, which would help reverse the decay of our roads, bridges and mass-transit systems and create millions of jobs; and a major investment in the green-energy sector.
On energy and global warming, Obama offers a set of forceful proposals. He supports a cap-and-trade programme to reduce America’s carbon emissions by 80 per cent by 2050 – an enormously ambitious goal, but one that many climate scientists say must be met if atmospheric carbon dioxide is to be kept below disastrous levels. Large emitters, such as utilities, would acquire carbon allowances and those which emit less carbon dioxide than their allotment could sell the resulting credits to those which emit more; over time, the available allowances would decline. Significantly, Obama wants to auction off the allowances; this would provide bn a year for developing alternative energy sources and creating job-training programmes in green technologies. He also wants to raise federal fuel-economy standards and to require that 10 per cent of America’s electricity be generated from renewable sources by 2012. Taken together, his proposals represent the most coherent and far-sighted strategy ever offered by a presidential candidate for reducing the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels.
There was once reason to hope that McCain and Obama would have a sensible debate about energy and climate policy. McCain was one of the first Republicans in the Senate to support federal limits on carbon dioxide and he has touted his own support for a less ambitious cap-and-trade programme as evidence of his independence from the White House. But, as polls showed Americans growing jittery about gasoline prices, McCain apparently found it expedient in this area, too, to shift course. He took a dubious idea – lifting the federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling – and placed it at the centre of his campaign. Opening up America’s coastal waters to drilling would have no impact on gasoline prices in the short term and, even over the long term, the effect, according to a recent analysis by the Department of Energy, would be ‘insignificant’. Such inconvenient facts, however, are waved away by a campaign that finally found its voice with the slogan ‘Drill, baby, drill!’
The contrast between the candidates is even sharper with respect to the third branch of government. A tense equipoise currently prevails among the justices of the Supreme Court, where four hardcore conservatives face off against four moderate liberals. Anthony M Kennedy is the swing vote, determining the outcome of case after case.
McCain cites Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, two reliable conservatives, as models for his own prospective appointments. If he means what he says, and if he replaces even one moderate on the current Supreme Court, then Roe v Wade will be reversed and states will again be allowed to impose absolute bans on abortion. McCain’s views have hardened on this issue. In 1999 he said he opposed overturning Roe; by 2006 he was saying that its demise ‘wouldn’t bother me any’; by 2008 he no longer supported adding rape and incest as exceptions to his party’s platform opposing abortion.
But scrapping Roe – which, after all, would leave states as free to permit abortion as to criminalise it – would be just the beginning. Given the ideological agenda that the existing conservative bloc has pursued, it’s safe to predict that affirmative action of all kinds would likely be outlawed by a McCain court. Efforts to expand executive power, which in recent years certain justices have nobly tried to resist, would be likely to increase. Barriers between church and state would fall; executions would soar; legal checks on corporate power would wither – all with just one new conservative nominee on the court. And the next President is likely to make three appointments.
Obama, who taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago, voted against confirming not only Roberts and Alito but also several unqualified lower-court nominees. As an Illinois state senator, he won the support of prosecutors and police organisations for new protections against convicting the innocent in capital cases. While McCain voted to continue to deny habeas corpus rights to detainees, perpetuating the Bush administration’s regime of state-sponsored extra-legal detention, Obama took the opposite side, pushing to restore the right of all US-held prisoners to a hearing. The judicial future would be safe in his care.
In the shorthand of political commentary, the Iraq war seems to leave McCain and Obama roughly even. Opposing it before the invasion, Obama had the prescience to warn of a costly and indefinite occupation and rising anti-American radicalism around the world; supporting it, McCain foresaw none of this. More recently, in early 2007, McCain risked his presidential prospects on the proposition that five additional combat brigades could salvage a war that by then appeared hopeless. Obama, along with most of the country, had decided that it was time to cut American losses. Neither candidate’s calculations on Iraq have been as cheaply political as McCain’s repeated assertion that Obama values his career over his country; both men based their positions, right or wrong, on judgment and principle.
President Bush’s successor will inherit two wars and the realities of limited resources, flagging popular will and the dwindling possibilities of what can be achieved by American power. McCain’s views on these subjects range from the simplistic to the unknown. In Iraq, he seeks ‘victory’ – a word that General David Petraeus refuses to use, and one that fundamentally misrepresents the messy, open-ended nature of the conflict. As for Afghanistan, on the rare occasions when McCain mentions it he implies that the surge can be transferred directly from Iraq, which suggests that his grasp of counterinsurgency is not as firm as he insisted it was during the first presidential debate. McCain always displays more faith in force than interest in its strategic consequences. Unlike Obama, McCain has no political strategy for either war, only the dubious hope that greater security will allow things to work out. Obama has long warned of deterioration along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border and has a considered grasp of its vital importance. His strategy for both Afghanistan and Iraq shows an understanding of the role that internal politics, economics, corruption and regional diplomacy play in wars where there is no battlefield victory.
Unimaginably painful personal experience taught McCain that war is above all a test of honour: maintain the will to fight on, be prepared to risk everything and you will prevail. Asked during the first debate to outline ‘the lessons of Iraq’, McCain said: ‘I think the lessons of Iraq are very clear: that you cannot have a failed strategy that will then cause you to nearly lose a conflict.’ A soldier’s answer – but a statesman must have a broader view of war and peace. The years ahead will demand not only determination but also diplomacy, flexibility, patience, judiciousness and intellectual engagement. These are no more McCain’s strong suit than the current President’s. Obama, for his part, seems to know that more will be required than will power and force to extract some advantage from the wreckage of the Bush years.
Obama is also better suited for the task of renewing the bedrock foundations of American influence. An American restoration in foreign affairs will require a commitment not only to international co-operation but also to international institutions that can address global warming, the dislocations of what will likely be a deepening global economic crisis, disease epidemics, nuclear proliferation, terrorism and other, more traditional security challenges. Many of the Cold War-era vehicles for engagement and negotiation – the United Nations, the World Bank, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty regime, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation – are moribund, tattered, or outdated. Obama has the generational outlook that will be required to revive or reinvent these compacts. He would be the first postwar American President unencumbered by the legacies of either Munich or Vietnam.
The next President must also restore American moral credibility. Closing Guantánamo, banning all torture and ending the Iraq war as responsibly as possible will provide a start, but only that. The modern presidency is as much a vehicle for communication as for decision-making and the relevant audiences are global. Obama has inspired many Americans in part because he holds up a mirror to their own idealism. His election would do no less – and likely more – overseas.
What most distinguishes the candidates, however, is character – and here, contrary to conventional wisdom, Obama is clearly the stronger of the two. Not long ago, Rick Davis, McCain’s campaign manager, said: ‘This election is not about issues. This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.’ The view that this election is about personalities leaves out policy, complexity and accountability. Even so, there’s some truth in what Davis said – but it hardly points to the conclusion that he intended.
Echoing Obama, McCain has made ‘change’ one of his campaign mantras. But the change he has provided has been in himself and it is not just a matter of altering his positions. A willingness to pander and even lie has come to define his presidential campaign and its televised advertisements. A contemptuous duplicity, a meanness, has entered his talk on the stump – so much so that it seems obvious that, in the drive for victory, he is willing to replicate some of the same underhanded methods that defeated him eight years ago in South Carolina.
Perhaps nothing revealed McCain’s cynicism more than his choice of Sarah Palin, the former mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, who had been governor of that state for 21 months, as the Republican nominee for Vice-President. In the interviews she has given since her nomination, she has had difficulty uttering coherent unscripted responses about the most basic issues of the day. We are watching a candidate for Vice-President cram for her ongoing exam in elementary domestic and foreign policy. This is funny as a Tina Fey routine on Saturday Night Live, but as a vision of the political future it’s deeply unsettling. Palin has no business being the back-up to a President of any age, much less to one who is 72 and in imperfect health. In choosing her, McCain committed an act of breathtaking heedlessness and irresponsibility. Obama’s choice, Joe Biden, is not without imperfections. His tongue sometimes runs in advance of his mind, providing his own fodder for late-night comedians, but there is no comparison with Palin. His deep experience in foreign affairs, the judiciary and social policy makes him an assuring and complementary partner for Obama.
The longer the campaign goes on, the more the issues of personality and character have reflected badly on McCain. Unless appearances are very deceptive, he is impulsive, impatient, self-dramatising, erratic and a compulsive risk-taker. These qualities may have contributed to his usefulness as a ‘maverick’ senator. But in a President they would be a menace.
By contrast, Obama’s transformative message is accompanied by a sense of pragmatic calm. A tropism for unity is an essential part of his character and of his campaign. It is part of what allowed him to overcome a Democratic opponent who entered the race with tremendous advantages. It is what helped him forge a political career relying both on the liberals of Hyde Park and on the political regulars of downtown Chicago. His policy preferences are distinctly liberal, but he is determined to speak to a broad range of Americans who do not necessarily share his every value or opinion. For some who oppose him, his equanimity even under the ugliest attack seems like hauteur; for some who support him, his reluctance to counterattack in the same vein seems like self-defeating detachment.
Yet it is Obama’s temperament – and not McCain’s – that seems appropriate for the office both men seek and for the volatile and dangerous era in which we live. Those who dismiss his centredness as self-centredness or his composure as indifference are as wrong as those who mistook Eisenhower’s stolidity for denseness or Lincoln’s humour for lack of seriousness.
Nowadays almost every politician who thinks about running for President arranges to become an author. Obama’s books are different: he wrote them. The Audacity of Hope (2006) is a set of policy disquisitions loosely structured around an account of his freshman year in the United States Senate.
Though a campaign manifesto of sorts, it is superior to that genre’s usual blowsy pastiche of ghostwritten speeches. But it is Obama’s first book, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995), that offers an unprecedented glimpse into the mind and heart of a potential President. Obama began writing it in his early thirties, before he was a candidate for anything. Not since Theodore Roosevelt has an American politician this close to the pinnacle of power produced such a sustained, highly personal work of literary merit before being definitively swept up by the tides of political ambition.
A presidential election is not the awarding of a Pulitzer prize: we elect a politician and, we hope, a statesman, not an author. But Obama’s first book is valuable in the way that it reveals his fundamental attitudes of mind and spirit. Dreams from My Father is an illuminating memoir not only in the substance of Obama’s own peculiarly American story but also in the qualities he brings to the telling: a formidable intelligence, emotional empathy, self-reflection, balance and a remarkable ability to see life and the world through the eyes of people very different from himself. In common with nearly all other senators and governors of his generation, Obama does not count military service as part of his biography. But his life has been full of tests – personal, spiritual, racial, political – that bear on his preparation for great responsibility.
It is perfectly legitimate to call attention, as McCain has done, to Obama’s lack of conventional national and international policy-making experience. We, too, wish he had more of it. But office-holding is not the only kind of experience relevant to the task of leading a wildly variegated nation. Obama’s immersion in diverse human environments (Hawaii’s racial rainbow, Chicago’s racial cauldron, countercultural New York, middle-class Kansas, predominantly Muslim Indonesia), his years of organising among the poor, his taste of corporate law and his grounding in public-interest and constitutional law – these, too, are experiences. And his books show that he has wrung from them every drop of insight and breadth of perspective they contained.
The exhaustingly, sometimes infuriatingly, long campaign of 2008 (and 2007) has had at least one virtue: it has demonstrated that Obama’s intelligence and steady temperament are not just figments of the writer’s craft. He has made mistakes, to be sure. (His failure to accept McCain’s imaginative proposal for a series of unmediated joint appearances was among them.) But, on the whole, his campaign has been marked by patience, planning, discipline, organisation, technological proficiency and strategic astuteness. Obama has often looked two or three moves ahead, relatively impervious to the permanent hysteria of the hourly news cycle and the cable news shouters. And when crisis has struck, as it did when the divisive antics of his ex-pastor threatened to bring down his campaign, he has proved equal to the moment, rescuing himself with a speech that not only drew the poison but also demonstrated a profound respect for the electorate.
Although his opponents have tried to attack him as a man of ‘mere’ words, Obama has returned eloquence to its essential place in American politics. The choice between experience and eloquence is a false one – something that Lincoln, out of office after a single term in Congress, proved in his own campaign of political and national renewal. Obama’s ‘mere’ speeches on everything from the economy and foreign affairs to race have been at the centre of his campaign and its success; if he wins, his eloquence will be central to his ability to govern.
We cannot expect one man to heal every wound, to solve every major crisis of policy. So much of the presidency, as they say, is a matter of waking up in the morning and trying to drink from a fire hydrant. In the quiet of the Oval Office, the noise of immediate demands can be deafening. And yet Obama has precisely the temperament to shut out the noise when necessary and concentrate on the essential.
The election of Obama – a man of mixed ethnicity, at once comfortable in the world and utterly representative of 21st-century America – would, at a stroke, reverse our country’s image abroad and refresh its spirit at home. His ascendance to the presidency would be a symbolic culmination of the civil- and voting – rights acts of the 1960s and the century-long struggles for equality that preceded them. It could not help but say something encouraging, even exhilarating, about the country, about its dedication to tolerance and inclusiveness, about its fidelity, after all, to the values it proclaims in its textbooks. At a moment of economic calamity, international perplexity, political failure and battered morale, America needs both uplift and realism, both change and steadiness. It needs a leader temperamentally, intellectually and emotionally attuned to the complexities of our troubled globe. That leader’s name is Barack Obama.
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The Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey is a multi-mission, military, tiltrotoraircraft with both a vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL), and short takeoff and landing (STOL) capability. It is designed to combine the functionality of a conventional helicopter with the long-range, high-speed cruise performance of a turboprop aircraft.
The V-22 originated from the U.S. Department of Defense Joint-service Vertical take-off/landing Experimental (JVX) aircraft program started in 1981. It was developed jointly by the Bell Helicopter, and Boeing Helicopters team, known as Bell Boeing, which produce the aircraft.[4] The V-22 first flew in 1989, and began years of flight testing and design alterations.
The United States Marine Corps began crew training for the Osprey in 2000, and fielded it in 2007. The Osprey’s other operator, the U.S. Air Force fielded their version of the tiltrotor in 2009. Since entering service with the U.S. Marine Corps and Air Force, the Osprey has been deployed for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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MV-22B
Basic U.S. Marine Corps transport; original requirement for 552 (now 360). The Marine Corps is the lead service in the development of the V-22 Osprey. The Marine Corps variant, the MV-22B, is an assault transport for troops, equipment and supplies, capable of operating from ships or from expeditionary airfields ashore. It is replacing the Marine Corps’ CH-46E[57] and CH-53D.[94]
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The Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion is the largest and heaviest helicopter in the United States military. It was developed from the CH-53 Sea Stallion, mainly by adding a third engine. Sailors and Marines commonly refer to the Super Stallion as the "Hurricane Maker" because of the downwash the helicopter generates. It was built by Sikorsky Aircraft for the United States Marine Corps. The less common MH-53E Sea Dragon fills the United States Navy‘s need for long range mine sweeping or Airborne Mine Countermeasures (AMCM) missions, and perform heavy-lift duties for the Navy. The CH-53E/MH-53E are designated "S-80" by Sikorsky.
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The Bell UH-1N Twin Huey is a medium military helicopter that first flew in April, 1969.[1] The UH-1N has a fifteen seat configuration, with one pilot and fourteen passengers. In cargo configuration the UH-1N has an internal capacity of 220 ft³ (6.23 m³). An external load of 5,000 lb (2,268 kg) can be carried by the UH-1N. The CUH-1N (later CH-135) Twin Huey was the original version, first ordered by the Canadian Forces.
For an overview of the whole Huey family of aircraft see Bell Huey
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The AH-1 Cobra (company designation: Bell 209) is a two-bladed, single engine attack helicopter manufactured by Bell. It shares a common engine, transmission and rotor system with the older UH-1 Iroquois. The AH-1 is also referred to as the HueyCobra or Snake.
The AH-1 was the backbone of the United States Army‘s attack helicopter fleet, but has been replaced by the AH-64 Apache in Army service. Upgraded versions continue to fly with the militaries of several other nations. The AH-1 twin engine versions remain in service with United States Marine Corps as the service’s primary attack helicopter. Surplus AH-1 helicopters have been converted for fighting forest fires. The United States Forest Service refers to their program as the Firewatch Cobra. Garlick Helicopters also converts surplus AH-1s for forest firefighting under the name, FireSnake.[2]
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The Bell AH-1 SuperCobra is a twin-engine attack helicopter based on the US Army’s AH-1 Cobra. The twin Cobra family includes the AH-1J SeaCobra, the AH-1T Improved SeaCobra, and the AH-1W SuperCobra. The AH-1W is the backbone of the United States Marine Corps‘s attack helicopter fleet, but will be replaced in service by the AH-1Z Viperupgrade in the next decade.
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