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...awesome,” Vance said. “I was excited that we made the switch...
Since the military’s switch to relying purely on volunteer soldiers in the decades since Vietnam, it has become the “best led, best trained, best equipped, and best supported” force America has ever had, Vietnam veteran Hagel said...
...that he is a prop in the long-running political theater that is Washington. But he is also clearly an actor--one of Washington's shrewdest power brokers. He plays politics just as he plays his favorite sport, tennis, in which he is known on occasion to switch his racquet from his right hand to his left in the middle of a point to avoid using his weaker backhand. So it was that during the 1990s the onetime adviser to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan joined the deficit hawks in Bill Clinton's Administration to support raising...
Independent of concerns for the environment, we have an obvious, national security interest in reducing our dependence on foreign oil. Oil imports account for 62 percent of current domestic consumption, and their contribution continues to increase. A tax on gasoline could promote a switch to more energy efficient vehicles. Politicians, however, show little inclination to take such a step even if the tax were implemented in a revenue neutral form. It could be offset, for example, by a reduction in taxes on income and/or capital. We could institute a purchase tax on gas-guzzlers offset by a subsidy for fuel...
...part, solutions involved technological fixes—reducing the emissions of pollutants either by pre-treating fuels prior to combustion or by installing devices in the smoke stacks of power plants and factories, or in the tail pipes of cars, to accomplish a similar objective. Alternatively, we opted to switch to less polluting fuels such as natural gas. In either case, the solutions involved increased expense. We have been modestly successful in addressing the issue of air pollution in more affluent societies. It remains serious, however, in large developing countries such as China and India where coal is the primary...