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Space Force?
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RE: Space Force?
(August 10, 2018 at 3:21 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(August 10, 2018 at 3:17 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: In as much as this is just a reorganization of that segment of the U.S. Air Force that already takes care of such things, I don't know that it's anything to get excited about, nor particularly embarrassing.  Reading last night, there are some 38,000 personnel already employed in this effort, so maybe having their own organization and command structure makes sense.  I don't know that Trump is proposing anything beyond this.  The only part that gets me is that by talking about it in the way he and Pence do, it seems it's been brought up as much to provide photo ops as it is a serious project.

Um no, it points out the long term hypocrisy of the GOP bemoaning limited government, only to create new needless entities instead of funding the existing ones.

Yes it is embarrassing because it really is nothing more to act as a distraction to billionaire tax breaks they do not need, and giving a bullhorn to bigots.

As pointed out, it doesn't seem that they are necessarily creating anything new, but rather consolidating something that already exists. Even if it were something new, your claim about any hypocrisy is rather weak. Conservatives aren't arguing for no government, just that some of the responsibilities that government has undertaken are not ones that it should be responsible for. That's not inconsistent with insisting that government should be responsible for this or that thing, even in the absence of such handling of those responsibilities in the past. There is no inherent conflict there.

If you want to argue that it is only being used as a distraction, you're going to need something more substantial than just your belief that it is. Seeing that you haven't presented anything to indicate this is the case, I can only suspect this is yet another example of your using one issue to springboard into a vapid rant about an unrelated topic.
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Space Force? - by Minimalist - August 10, 2018 at 11:55 am
RE: Space Force? - by Silver - August 10, 2018 at 12:02 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 10, 2018 at 12:08 pm
RE: Space Force? - by RoadRunner79 - August 10, 2018 at 12:11 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Aroura - August 10, 2018 at 12:21 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Brian37 - August 10, 2018 at 12:54 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 10, 2018 at 1:12 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Brian37 - August 10, 2018 at 12:12 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Amarok - August 10, 2018 at 12:14 pm
RE: Space Force? - by purplepurpose - August 10, 2018 at 12:16 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 10, 2018 at 12:41 pm
RE: Space Force? - by vorlon13 - August 10, 2018 at 1:08 pm
RE: Space Force? - by RoadRunner79 - August 10, 2018 at 1:11 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Brian37 - August 10, 2018 at 2:41 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Minimalist - August 10, 2018 at 2:43 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Brian37 - August 10, 2018 at 2:49 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Minimalist - August 10, 2018 at 2:51 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Brian37 - August 10, 2018 at 3:00 pm
RE: Space Force? - by vorlon13 - August 10, 2018 at 4:49 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Angrboda - August 10, 2018 at 3:17 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Brian37 - August 10, 2018 at 3:21 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Angrboda - August 10, 2018 at 6:48 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Minimalist - August 10, 2018 at 3:28 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Brian37 - August 10, 2018 at 3:32 pm
RE: Space Force? - by The Valkyrie - August 10, 2018 at 3:33 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Crossless2.0 - August 10, 2018 at 3:42 pm
RE: Space Force? - by The Valkyrie - August 10, 2018 at 3:47 pm
RE: Space Force? - by LastPoet - August 10, 2018 at 3:57 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 10, 2018 at 4:03 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 10, 2018 at 3:44 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Brian37 - August 10, 2018 at 3:49 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Gawdzilla Sama - August 10, 2018 at 3:54 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Minimalist - August 10, 2018 at 3:49 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Minimalist - August 10, 2018 at 4:34 pm
RE: Space Force? - by zebo-the-fat - August 10, 2018 at 5:09 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Brian37 - August 10, 2018 at 5:11 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Minimalist - August 10, 2018 at 6:02 pm
RE: Space Force? - by Brian37 - August 10, 2018 at 6:03 pm

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