Talk with the Europeans who don't have to wait in lines and get their health care for half the cost.

There does not need to be a tradeoff between good health care at a reasonable price.

That was by no means intentional.  

It's forefront analysis.  Every f---- year the cost goes up more than expected.  Every f----- year.  I don't know about you, but from a business perspective this just does not make sense.  No other business could live with costs going up twice as fast as "inflation" and "sales" increases.  Only the Health Care industry can get by with this--and their stock value shows the same thing.  Apple can hardly keep up with the Health Industry.

This should be on the national news tonight!  Trillions have been handed the Health Care industry at our peoples' and our country's expense.  It's worse than even what the Fed did between 1982 and 2008.  What the Fed did was because of stupidity.  This looks more like criminality.  Lying with their statistics and getting by with every f------ year.  Is not our Government smart?  Three hours it took me to do this--and half of that was reading about different aspects of medicare.

They should.

It is funny.  Your comments always make me think you are part of the Talkmarkets management, which always strikes me funny because i didn't think Talkmarkets management had anything to do with my blog.

Just the same it doesn't matter.  I have already gone "dark".  No more Talkmarkets for me until i hear something from someone who actually means something to me.

Thanks for setting me straight though.  Your comment means i must be as crazy as a loon, which other people have claimed to be my case, too.

Have a good one, Susan.

I am not so sure.  Trump liked Putin period.  Trump liked Putin's style.  

Trump actually is a "pretty stupid" person when it comes down to it.  That's a hard thing to prove when he made it all the way to the Presidency, but Trump actually is not a very smart man.  He knows absolutely nothing about the history of this country.  Period.  

Historians will have a "hay day" figuring out what happened to America that allowed a Trump like figure get elected as President of the United States, but it will end up coming down to the "humongous split" between the two parties, with "independents" tired of them both--taking a flyer with Trump (to their chagrin)

Always.

This the first of a two-part series regarding my view of the U.S. military service.  This first part is based upon what i learned during the four-year period that i served in the military.

First of all, let me begin, by saying that i spent my time in the "best of the best" in the military.  That was one of Admiral Rickover's favorite sales pitches once he "offered you" a chance to "volunteer".  If your going to serve, then "why not with the best".

Most people might not understand this or believe this, but the submarine force that i worked for, had more technical capabilities than what was going on at the same time with the "moon shots".  This seems to be a well kept secret, but the truth of the matter, most "science breakthroughs" usually go first to the military, then eventually on to the public.  (Take the internet, just as an easy example).

The U.S. submarine force is the top of the line.  There is no other part of the military service whether it be the seals, the marines, the flyboys, etc., that can one-up a submariner.  Ever submariner that has ever served in the military in the last near 100-years knows this.  So, when i said i served in the best of the best--that simply is a truism.  Not only that, we had Admiral Rickover leading the way--and he was definitely the "best of the best."  No questions asked.

When I served about every six months some new piece of technological equipment would be given us to replace whatever we were using before.  Every six months.  That was back in the early 1970s.  We could put the missiles we carried inside Yankee Stadium from 3000 miles away.  

Hey, and do you know what, this is before all the "new digitation technologies".  Our sonar men "listened on earphones" during six hour shifts.  Today, they are looking at screens that already have the fucking noise analyzed better than we could using the "best of our best" sonarman.  Now come on.

And guess what?  We had the best of all the rest of the world's submarines at the time, too.  We were always wondering in the early 70s whether Russia could catch up with us.  I think the best answer to that is the old book "October something".

Anyway, based upon the above, i am beginning to believe that we continued to advance our technology, such that it is still the best in the world.  And when i am on a submarine today, i very much would like to have the best technology.  Not only that, i would also like to have the best "naval submarine strategy" based upon years of experience.

Okay.  Now knowing right off, that a Taiwan/China thing is going to be more a "Navy" battle as much as anything, then do you know what?  I think i would put my money on the "experienced U.S. Navy" versus of the "Chinese Navy", which only started to really develop a couple of decades ago.

What i talked about regarding submarines, probably holds pretty much true with our naval carriers and our jet, weapons, etc. technology.  

If you look at Ukraine/Russia in the same way, you kind of see the same thing going on from a technological standpoint, but mostly from "land" activies, not "naval" activities.

Although I will always find it strange that more Russia naval ships have not been sunk, since the Russian's lost their "Commanding Admiral's Ship" by a weapon the Ukrainians developed themselves (as we have been told).  Now, you can look at that in two ways.  One way to look at is this: Amazing, a once in a million shot--we actually weren't expecting to hit anything, and low and behold we hit the "Commanding Admiral's Ship"--such good fortune!  Or you could also read as "restraint", like a message being sent, saying that you might not be quite as strong as you think you are--maybe you might want to reconsider your actions.  That kind of restraint.

And that is kind of what i think of today's military from a person experience standpoint.

I am glad the United States is as strong as it is "militarially", but i can only hope that we use our "military" only for purposes that reduce the need for it ever to be used again.  It's time to turn our "swords" into "plowshares".  And then it will be time to get down to business and do the things that do need to be done.

ps.  In the next blog i will give you my "analytical" view of the history that i know best regarding the U.S. Military

I am not sure that you are supposed to see this or not, but it is out there on my "blog site".  Here is the link:

Jim Boswell Blog | My Two Views of the Military--Part 1--the Personal View | Talkmarkets

It is Absolutely Nothing.  The difference between what Biden did and Trump did is like comparing a "gnat to an elephant"--there is absolutely no comparison at all.  Trump will be in prison for 2024 (and deservedly so).  Biden will still be President (and deservedly so).