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  • Normal practice is as follows for dignitaries let alone former presidents.

    Secret Service man’s the venue itself. Local police man’s the perimeter. Every roof is not only secured but actually occupied. There’s an officer on every roof that is a concern.

    Again, every roof physically has an officer on it. That’s how it’s handled for ambassadors, senators, and obviously leaders of a country.








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    11 months ago

    But we spend nearly $200 billion just paying salaries. We spend the most because we are also an expensive country to live in and that means paying the folks who volunteer a decent wage.

    We would have to significantly downsize the military personnel and pretty much operate as homeland defense only.


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    11 months ago

    This comment doesn’t even make sense. For example, the USA government spent 37% compared to the GDP.

    If you mean 10% of government spending towards science then that question makes sense.

    The USA spends about $75billion of the $800billion defense budget on R&D. It spends another $120billion on non-defense R&D.

    Which is about 1/31 of federal spending for the US.


  • Sounds like you have a “low premium” high deductible plan. I had one of those. Where I paid every dollar until I hit $3.5K and then 20% until hit $7k and then paid nothing. I can see where you could get to $86k. I’d start looking for a job that comes with a better health plan. I now pay $400 a month and $20 co-pay here and there.

    That’s a symptom of our system. There’s so many different plans and options, and it’s further obfuscated behind your company doing all the negotiating that it’s not actually a free market. We would be better off going to a single payer system.