Well, let's hope that your buddies didn't make this call, nor know of it and failed to put up a red flag.foreverlax wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2019 9:50 amSorry, your analogy doesn't hold a drop of water for me. Agree to disagree.LandM wrote: ↑Tue Sep 10, 2019 9:48 am MD,
The Chief of Staff of the Air Force currently was my Basic Cadet Training roommate - Goldfein. The next and I do not want to jinx was my roommate for 2 years - hopefully he gets it.
TLD,
You just made my point. $3/night may not seem like allot to you but I know allot of college aged kids at PSU who would take it all day. But you further hit my point - say it is 2,000 room nights/year - you are talking $6,000. You do realize the chump change you guys are all worked up over right?
Forever,
They are laughing as it is baseless. My wife who knows absolutely nothing about the military found out we can get allot of free or discounted things. Lowe's, 10% off - who owns their stock?; McDonald's - 5% off - who owns their stock?; Wyndham - 20% off - who owns their stock?; the vet for the kids 5% off - who owns that stock as they are a chain; I could keep going but by now you should get the point. Because someone you disagree with owns a majority of that stock does this mean a military person cannot shop in there? That poor chap could not buy a thing unless it was imported from North Korea
I realize that military folks are taught to respect chain of command and to follow orders unless actually illegal (and that's fuzzy too), but this smacks of "swamp", definitely not something the DoD had been immune from!
On the dollars involved, this would indeed be quite penny ante if it just involved a few hotel stays at a discount.
But millions of dollars are involved with the stopovers. So, the question is if the military is spending serious bucks to divert traffic to Prestwick and whether there was any perceived pressure to do so from the White House? And how exactly does Trump and co benefit? Do they get, for instance, a slice of gas revenues, or other kickbacks associated with the increase in traffic? Trump knows what the terms of deal were that he cut with Prestwick in 2014, so what are they? Any subsequent "deals"? And wast here any pressure, perceived or direct, from Trump as POTUS or his cronies to increase the traffic?
These are fair questions.
We see the sorts of threats and pressure on other agencies to kowtow to Trump's lies and corruption; unfortunately the military can't be assumed to immune. And, of course, there's always the "it's not illegal" defense.
Your last para is quite ridiculous. Makes zero sense.
Sorry to be so blunt. Don't mean to offend.