@MattMorseTV A lot of that USAID cash was some kind of fraud making a lot of NGOs a lot of money. Foreign despots absconded lots of it or it made its way back to US politicians.
Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.
If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.
@Amy_Siskind Imagine if liberal governments didn’t piss away trillions through fraud and money laundering to foreign countries how tax dollars could benefit taxpayers.
You’re pathetic
The United States government spends $7.5 trillion every 12 months, yet there’s homelessness, poverty and problems all over the country.
Stop acting like Elon Musk can save the entire planet with his (illiquid) net worth he doesn’t even have access to.
You sound stupid.
The two servicemen that got shot down near the coast of Oman. Unless they were knocked out by the attack, memories of their families had to have run through their minds. The impact had to be lifechanging. Imagine that experience. Thank God they’re alive.
General Omar Bradley called it the most dangerous mission of D-Day. He was not wrong.
At 6:30am on June 6, 1944, 225 Army Rangers approached a 100-foot sheer cliff face on the Normandy coast called Pointe du Hoc.
Their mission: climb it.
The cliff was vertical. The Germans were at the top with full visibility of everyone below. As the Rangers fired grappling hooks upward, the Germans cut the ropes. Shot the men hanging on them. Dropped grenades over the edge onto the climbers beneath.
The Rangers kept climbing.
It took roughly 40 minutes. Men fell. Men were shot off the ropes. The ones behind them grabbed the ropes and kept going.
They reached the top.
Then came the gut punch: the massive 155mm artillery guns they had been sent to destroy were gone. The Germans had moved them inland before the invasion. The entire mission had been sent to destroy guns that weren't there.
Most commanders would have regrouped and called it done.
The Rangers fanned out. Two miles inland, they found the guns, hidden in an orchard, already aimed at Utah Beach and loaded to fire. They destroyed every one with thermite grenades.
Then they dug in. Cut off, with almost no ammunition, no reinforcements, and no resupply, 225 men held Pointe du Hoc against relentless German counterattacks for two full days.
When relief finally arrived, only 90 Rangers could still stand and fight.
Their names are carved on a memorial in Normandy. Most Americans today cannot name a single one.