But that doesn’t mean they actually raised taxes or did anything to solve the budget shortfall that the retirement change was for. That’s just kicking the can down the road.

Modifying them is trivially easy, so any can be full auto, but burst fire is superior anyway. Full auto is only for psychological coolness.

It was like 500-600 a month for two people a decade ago but the insurance plans on the exchange have gone up in price about a 100 monthly, every year. But they also dissappear after getting too high, so there are increasingly fewer plans from new or small providers. This year it’s 1200 monthly. These plans were actually quite good though compared to regular plans people get from their employer, with 0 copay and 0 deductible. For low income people on the exchange it cost them 0-100$ monthly for them, and the subsidies covered the entire plan cost up to around 1000$ a month. So last year you could have excellent health coverage for 50 dollars a month, but no longer.

The big problem of course was that without the universal mandate, the whole obamacare plan didn’t really work long term because the cost kept going up without any of the parts to keep that price down because of the Supreme court.

The difference is the military can very quickly kill thousands of people per minute, without even going to the big stuff. Hand held guns are irrelevant.

Did you mean are punished?

That’s not really accurate, the experience of an infantry soldier doing foot patrols in Afghanistan is completely different than someone who lived in a giant base in Iraq that had hiphop night and taco bell and never left it.

It’s the system that produces a restricted rules of engagement and a general fear of punishment if you do something wildly out of line and a strong Management that induces discipline and restraint. If you take one crazy guy out of that system and then hand him a gun and tell him that he can do whatever he wants with full immunity then you don’t get restraint.

He was popular and his excellent oratory skills induced people that liked him to like him more personally

The 2008 election was most Americans and while it wasn’t solely about Iraq war it was resoundingly unpopular

In any context you always have a general 2:1 ratio of non combat support to active combat arms troops

They had taxes

They didn’t have the same body is why, they were in their 40s and had an entire life when they left and were still children on earth.

It only lasted 8 months and had 40k deaths for the whole country, but that’s why they were sent out to the countryside.

I liked it, but then it got weird

There is also Those who hunt elves.

He says quite clearly that on earth his form is a lamb instead of a lion, and the last book is a straight eschaton.

It’s on a long term cycle 50kyears ish where it goes from green to dry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_cell