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Afternoon, Jerry. I looked at the site. I would donate if it were more a bipartisan or Independent's focused pac. It is good to see a grass roots movement for changing out the old guard. Maybe some momentum.

I've started a movement. Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, a prominent fixture in Democratic politics and the face of the Biden administration for years, is leaving the party and registering as an independent, according to a press release about her upcoming book. In her book, "Independent: A look inside a broken White House, outside the party lines," Jean-Pierre "shares why Americans must step beyond party lines to embrace life as Independents," https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/former-biden-white-house-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-says-leavi-rcna210966

That's no bullshit.

When I retired, I was asked to sit on the City's disaster mitigation committee. We spent a year in assessment, then writing the report that FEMA would accept (think APA for the goverment). The improvements according to the plan to make the city safer took about five years.

After Katrina; one of the solutions I proposed to FEMA regarding the homes in New Orleans was to use the Corps of Engineers to rebuild the city. It could have been a capstone project for MOS classes. Evidently, there is a law that the corps, nor the military can help individuals; only the general population. It was interesting to go to FEMA, cause every time I walked in one whole side of the table was attorneys. I suggested someone write a bill to change the law. It fell on deaf ears.

Congratulations. I don't know that Lisa knows that DZ.com has resurfaced as Skydive Forums.

Let's talk about this. Elimination - no. Since Katrina, Wilma, Ike, etc. The static budget for FEMA grew to an approximate 80 Billion. It should only take 20 Billion to run FEMA with supplemental appropriations during major catastophic events. As with any federal empire; it's based on budget. So, once they started getting a static budget for the empire - they tried to hang on to it. That empire is too bloated. In my opinion, the insurance companies are trying to offload their responsibilities and dump on FEMA. On that note, I think that Homeland security, FEMA and several other agencies that overlap in mission and budget should be re-engineered.

Follow the money. Conmen are manipulators. Conmen have no discernible skills other than words. Conmen getting conned. Conmen think they are the greatest conmen on the planet, so much so that they can't even recognize when they are being conned, even when someone points it out.

I think they were on for minutes when the news came in. Wonder what back door threats to their judgeships were made.

Probably something to do with contractual free trade agreements with 20 countries. Whoda thunk it. Guess the rule of law does matter. Now get your ass in front of congress and work out a bipartisan budget.

Great. Now, I've got add chicken tacos on skydiver night.

The Yang model would be $1,000/month to each adult + basic health care. His contention was that it was not enough to live on and people should supplement that UBI. Unfortunately, his plan would have cost the government 2.8 trillion a year and his solution for that burden was to establish a VAT and other taxes, but the backfill was 50% of the cost. For me, it sounds good, but the real solution is to create more jobs, and get folks education for those jobs.

You really don't think the 1.1T budget for DoD was for naught, do ya?

"If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." ~Samuel Adams

Bombas socks created a social impact wherein this generation now does business with those (social enterprises) who invest back into the commmunity. True statement. Average anywhere else. US business owners will tell you, "they want the money, but they don't want the work."