10/01/2023 Arsenio Toledo
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen presided over the launch ceremony in the southern port city of Kaohsiung. The ROCN briefly explained that Hai Kun describes a mythical giant flying fish popular in classical Chinese literature. English translations describe the "hai kun" as a narwhal...........To Read More....
My Take - It's been reported Taiwan's domestic submarine manufacturing is too little, too late. I disagree. All the need to defend is that short strip of ocean between them and mainland China. And if this report is to be believed, that's what they're putting in place. Big difference between Taiwan's leadership and Ukraine's.
Taiwan’s Big Stake in Washington’s Budget Battles - By Dustin Walker | Eric Sayers September 29, 2023 - Passing twelve appropriations bills is essential for avoiding a government shutdown and a dangerous return of sequestration, which did so much damage to America’s military over the last decade. And as recent legislative action reveals, these bills are also critical for bolstering deterrence in the Taiwan Strait. After two years of debate, both House and Senate appropriators have for the first time approved legislation that would fund Foreign Military Financing grants, specifically for Taiwan. This funding would provide the U.S. government another important tool for quickly delivering asymmetric capabilities Taiwan needs to add complexity and risk to Beijing’s military calculus.'...........At minimum, Congress should provide $500 million in FMF for Taiwan in fiscal year 2024, which starts Oct. 1, as House appropriators recommended. The Senate version’s $113 million represents a paltry sum that does not reflect American or Taiwanese security needs. For perspective, that’s less than ten percent than what Egypt has received in FMF each year for the last three decades.....
My Take- Perspective is it? You want perspective? How's this. Why are we giving money we don't have to these people, and what planet do these "intellectuals" come from?
Oh, wait, I know, this is an effort by interplanetary aliens spies to lay the ground work for an alien invasion to conquer the Earth. You say that makes no sense, well, that makes as much sense as these idiot spending proposals.
It gets worse, far worse. We're throwing money away like lunatics. It turns out we're now, "Up to $135 Billion in Pandemic Unemployment Fraud—and Still Counting".
Last week, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) added a startling new figure to the ever-growing estimates of abuse inflicted on unemployment benefits during the pandemic, finding that “between $100 billion and $135 billion” was lost to fraud. As a dismal Washington Post headline summarized, “Fraudsters may have stolen $1 of every $7 in covid jobless aid.” Unfortunately, this disastrous episode is still far from over—a close reading of the GAO estimate shows improper payments are likely to only continue rising. The latest figures roughly double GAO’s prior December 2022 estimate of over $60 billion in fraud inflicted on pandemic unemployment benefits. In February 2023, the Department of Labor (DOL) Inspector General (IG) estimated over $76 billion “was likely paid to fraudsters.”
And guess who has to be held responsible for all that fraud? Congress, and their Deep State bureaucrat allies! And make no mistake, I have no doubt before this is over it will be discovered federal bureaucrats will have had a hand in this, either directly, or because of incompetence and indifference.
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