Except that the TSA is more government and not part of the private sector at all.

Now all we need to do is start using the private sector to launch astronauts into space and we can finally do something about the bureaucratic nightmare that is NASA.

If a bunch of tinpot shithole countries that don't even have widespread indoor plumbing were whining to my company about how we mapped disputed borders, I'd tell them to eat shit.

That's not how the NES works. Just blow in the slot/cartridge, and if that doesn't work smack the NES until it works properly.

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Second. We lose more money by letting Congress kill projects than by actually finishing them in the first place.

First of all, China's navy is a joke and our navy is pretty much built explicitly to obliterate any enemy air assets within 500 miles. They can't deny us the use of our carriers at all.

Secondly, the US has more military assets in Japan than most countries have in their entire military. We're also so closely tied to Japan's military that they may as well be considered a branch of ours. China, for all of its cannon fodder, could never hope to prevent flights from Japan.

We have an aircraft carrier the size of California just off the Chinese coast.

Either way, if we want to get pedantic, there are a lot of navigable rivers in the world that subs can sail up.

We have the second amendment for a reason. It is the right that upholds all other rights. Your friend should have used it.