Why is management in the second wave? I'm pretty sure you could replace them(or at least upper management) with a Magic 8 Ball right now.

Hmm, maybe global warming is a plot by the Republicans to wipe out the blue states...

Well if if Truth is Truth, then you may want to do a little research on those former KKK members. You'll find they were democrats. Check out who their targets were. Here is a link to Wikipedia to get you started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan

Social Security is included in FICA.

Bob and Doug McKenzie go searching for beer on mars, eh?

Why wait? Did they lock the basement door?

You obviously have never worked on a farm. Manure is taken from the barn and pushed into a manure pond. It stays there until the farmer comes and scoops it out and spreads it directly on the field using manure spreader pulled behind a tractor, or more likely these days, gets shot out of a shit shooter just like water from the sprinkler. They don't let it sit around and compost unless they are in the business of selling compost. Next time you go past a farm and see brown dirty water coming out of the sprinkler, pull over, get out of your car and take a good whiff! Compost doesn't stink like crap.

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Let's do some basic math: Our military budget is about $800 billion so cutting 90% would leave us with $88.9 billion.
We have about 1.5 million active people on duty for a cost of $154.2 billion + $3.1 billion for family housing which leaves -$68.4 billion dollars.

Already in the hole with your plan and we can't afford to provide them with bullets, let alone transportation, armor, food, medical care, etc.!

If we reduce our force down to 100K then the other 1.4 million ex-military and their families would end up needing unemployment, medicaid, food stamps, etc. I don't think that is a very fair thing to to to people who have served our country so bravely.

Your plan also ignores the approx 2.5 million people (and their families) in defense related jobs that would become unemployed and end up needing unemployment, medicaid, food stamps, etc.

Would we be able to provide healthcare from the savings? Of the $2.2 Trillion spent on healthcare in the U.S. each year, $800 billion is from medicare/medicaid so that leaves $1.4 Trillion. If we subtract the $711.1 billion dollar savings from defense we still have to come up with $688.9 billion (almost as much as we saved on defense), so no we don't make it.

I don't think you will be getting my vote in November!

Why is this modded up? On a campaign trail politicians give speeches, shake hands and eat expensive dinners with their well to do contributors. They don't actually do anything, especially bad things like laying off people. I guess the real thing I find funny about this post is that the "corporate CEO billionaire" referred to happens to be a DEMOCRAT.

I think the fact that Ohio is not near any source of saltwater would be the real non-starter.

April and June are in the same quarter.

Now that is a great domain (.bs). They should not have given it to a country but used it for more relevant purposes such as: politics.bs, ads.bs, sales.bs, and of course steveballmer.bs.

Just saw an interview on the news with Burt and Paul. Paul made a point of saying he would not be one of the first to go up. In fact he would wait for many launches before he would go. I guess he learned something from his time at Microsoft!