>Wow!.
>Roy Moore was defeated. Pubescent young ladies in his town are safe!
>Wow!
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>
>After breathing your sigh of relief, think about this:
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>http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2017/05/njs_joint_base_gets_funding_in_trump_budget.html
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>Wow!
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>Read it completely.
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>"Norcross and Reps. Frank LoBiondo (R-2nd Dist.), Tom MacArthur (R-3rd Dist.) and Chris Smith (R-4th Dist.) urged Defense Secretary James Mattis in a letter earlier this month to include funding for the hangars in the forthcoming budget, which increases defense spending by $54 billion while cutting funding for Medicaid, children's health insurance and food stamps"
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>PS - Norcross is a Democrat
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>Here's the deal.
>More than 42,000 people are employed at the Joint Base McGuire/Dix.
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>That's more than any single employer in New Jersey.
>That's just slightly less than half of the entire population of Hamilton, NJ.
>Their congressional reps have one, and only one, mission... keep that base open and raise its funding.
>Keep it open, period.
>I've been out there. These are good, family, people.
>
>The tragedy is that there are stories like this in North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, California, New York, New Mexico, Maine and many other states.
>I don't want to see these people hurt, but things have to change and they will, inevitably.
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>
>Read this:
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>>>Headquarters of the Department of Defense, the Pentagon is one of the world's largest office buildings. It is twice the size of the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, and has three times the floor space of the Empire State Building in New York.
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>Union corruption? - minor league stuff.
>Unions take millions - this is billions.
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>The US spends more on military items than THE REST OF THE WORLD COMBINED and WANTS TO SPEND MORE, with enthusiastic bi-partisan support.
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>Don't want to change that?
>OK.
>Go and pet your cat or your dog. Water your plants.
>Recycle stuff. Use locally sourced veggies.
>However, consider this.
>With every breath we take, you and I are complicit in the murder of innocent people who have been and are being slaughtered in our names as I type this.
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>Merry Christmas.

Bill don't get so down. I'm sure both of us have seen worse days.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I try and start every day just being thankful that I have another day to try and do those things that I think are important. No matter how small the changes, I will not give up. It goes back to the old economic principle of "not many ways to make a million dollars but a million ways to make $1". Or, "not many ways to change a million minds but a million ways to change one mind". "They" haven't won until you quit trying so just keep trying.
And Merry Christmas to you.