Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: unclewest who wrote (466755)	1/23/2012 9:51:57 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 793927

With the military having left, you'd think the vacant palace premises would be good enough. But I suppose nothing is good enough for State Department VIPs. < Our military converted some of his facilities to a war HQ and admin. If you recall, the State Dept arrived quite late. They must not have liked the leftovers. > I fixed an old couch yesterday. It turned out to be actually uneconomic to do so, so I know that renovating old things is not always a good idea. But $1 billion dollars is real money for a place for an ambassador to hang out and organize parties. The ambassador could live in Allentown and get instructions via those newfangled electronic bizzos and send them to his Iraqi counterparts via 3D stereophonic avatar. That would save a lot of taxpayer money and they would not get a suicide bomber knocking on the front door. Or, maybe Iraq could have an ambassador in Allentown which would be nice for them [no suicide bombers] and save on even the cost of an Allentown ambassador - heck, with Qualcomm's fancy technology, the ambassadors could get real work more suitable for their talents, and the departments could communicate directly from Washington to Baghdad. Like we are doing now, but with pictures. They could use Skype for pictures. They could each go to a restaurant and meet there, with the USA one paying the bills by credit card electronically. Bribes could be send via Paypal straight to Switzerland. No need for bags of money which could get robbed. Mqurice