Political Opinions

[dead0man]

1.Good God no
2.Good God yes
3.meh, probably not, but we should be more selective in using it
4.no
5.today? no, ASAP? yes
6.meh
7.of course
8.depends on the specifics, but yes to all of them anyway
9.should be up to local laws, but generally speaking, giving the money to the cops directly is going to set us up for some bad sh**t going down
10.Good God no
11.adding "weapons" in there kind of spoils the question.....yes, of course.  As long as they act like dicks we shouldn't let them get the big weapons
12."we" who?  "we" the US? No.  "we" the West?  Yeah, probably.  Along with a lot of other phuqued up places in the world
13.Good God no...if you want the "market" to work you have to let the "market" do it's thing and part of that is making sure BAD businesses fail.
14.laissez faire 95% of the time, mixed the other 5%
15.of course
16.today? no, ASAP? yes
17.of course
18.meh
19.yes
20.neither me nor Google has any idea what you're talking about
21.meh...leaning no
22.it should be up to them
23.too small aint it?, up to them if its big enough
24.same as above
25.same
26.same
27.no
28.no
29.no
30.no
31.yes
32.yes
33.should be up to them
34.depends on the details brother
35.good God no
36.no, that's stupid
37.no....the free market will make it happen (for all intents and purposes) eventually anyway....we're already pretty far down that road anyway
38.yes?
39.no
40.no
41.yes
42.yes
43.that's a zoning issue
44.meh
45.no
46.no
47.no
48.occasionally, yes
49.of course not
50.meh
51.meh and no
52.eventually we won't have a choice
53.meh
54.no
55.yes and probably
56.no, let private enterprise take the ball and run with it
57.no
58.no
59.yes
60.no
61.yes, it's often cheaper than the alternative
62.yes
63.yes
64.no
65.no
66.meh
67.no...at least not yet

[dead0man]

re:61.Most (all?) defense contractors are there to save money in the first place.  I've discussed this before but I can do it again.

In tech heavy jobs you have serious issues with turnover if you use actual military enlistees/officers.  You train a guy for a year, send him off to his job, train him for another year then you get two years out of him/her (much of which is spent training the next group of new guys) and then he's out of the military because he/she is now full of valuable training or if they do reenlist they're off to their next assignment.  I'll use my shop as an example.  When it was ran directly by the USAF it had 40ish dudes.  10 or so of which were there as NCOs/SeniorNCOs just keeping the 30ish 20 somethings in line.  There were always a few dudes that were about to get out or about to go to a new assignment.  Another handfull of dudes doing OJT and a couple of people training them.  Leaving a couple of SrAs doing 75% of the work.  Now that it is civilian run, there are 10 people here.  10 old dudes not going anywhere.  Yeah, we get paid more per person, but it's much cheaper on the whole (and that's not even counting all the extra, non-payment benies the enlisted get that we don't).

There may be other valid reasons to be against defense contractors (I'll leave those to you guys ), but saving money shouldn't be included in that.

(why yes I am biased...why do you ask?)