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To summarize this entire topic, since nobody who is afraid of the GND has been able to quote a page or paragraph is it safe so say that this is just more people being afraid of AOC and her Lefty rhetoric?

I agree, it can definitely make it harder, especially at lower jump numbers. But there are always exceptions. A friend of ours is quite large, at least 250, always has been. He has many thousands of jumps, 30 plus years in sport and he holds multiple RW and CRW world records. He dresses for success; suits with lots of drag help a lot. I'm a feather butt and we have done some jumps together, including him officiating my wedding jump. The only fall rate issues were me if I wasn't wearing a snug suit (ie I didn't dress for success). But yeah, most of the larger jumpers I've known haven't stayed in the sport very long, at least partly because their learning curve is so steep due to their size and the fact that not every jumper, especially ones at about the same jump numbers, can keep up with them in freefall. But even if they don't do a lot of jumps, they got to experience skydiving as a skydiver not as a tandem passenger. That's not a bad thing :-)

I OWN real estate I don’t sell it and I run a small DZ. Not bad for a 55 year old retired bank officer and Army Ranger. As far as credentials are concerned my MBA will have to suffice. I have to say, I am flattered you consider the content of my posts equal to a Noble laureate in physics. I will endeavor to maintain your admiration.

Real estate - really? And from the tone of your posts I thought you were at least a Nobel laureate in physics and chemistry with a Fields medal for good measure.

You'll never get the politics out of either one. Getting the subsidies out would be a good goal, though.

Definitely. It was interesting seeing the difference between the 60's protesters and the modern protesters on the VT Yankee reactor. The old guys (not just age as there were older 'new thinkers') were purely anti-nuke everything, can't hug with nuclear arms, kind of people and the new ones are cognizant that there needs to be a mix. Right now I think VT is going for about 15% homes being powered by rooftop solar, there's a lot of biomass growth which has it's own issues, huge growth in wind but the state puts a very high value on it's trademark mountain tops. VT and NH and NY should think about another nuke plant somewhere in their neighborhood. The common denominator is that it's not easy but we have to try way fuckin' harder and the state has made huge gained with a very contentious set of people while everyone else in the country flounders.