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FAA Taking a Look At News Corp's Use of Drone
nonprofiteer writes "The News Corp iPad newspaper has a drone they've been using for news gathering — mainly flying it over disaster zones in N. Dakota and Alabama. However, FAA regulations on drones are very restrictive at the moment, and they're not supposed to be used for commercial purposes (law enforcement is free to use them). The FAA is now examining The Daily's use of its drone. Could this set a precedent for how private businesses can use drones?"
"That's fine, but could you please try not to fuck things up for the majority of the country while you're at it?"
Give me a fucking break. Next year's spending will be about $200B lower, making a small dent in a *deficit* of $1600B. 2021's projected budget will now be $5.3 trillion instead of $5.5 trillion, lowering by about $200B the projected *increase* from today of $2 trillion.
Nothing's getting "fucked up". These are not even "cuts" in spending - they're minor reductions in the rate of growth of spending - and frankly, not enough to fix our economic problems. Before your mouth starts watering thinking about punishing the "rich", confiscating *all* taxable income of everyone making $114,000 and above (which isn't "rich") still wouldn't eliminate the defict.
Spending is the problem. Pointing out and fighting to fix it isn't "fuck[ing] things up for the majority". Spending more and more, year in and year out, in good economic times and bad, is what's fucking things up.