Dr. Strangelove

When I say it can't be touched, I'm simply referring to the political aspects. The uncomfortable reality is that the military is a giant jobs program with extremely generous benefits - particularly retirement. They have one of the most generous retirement plans in the world. Still, even with large adjustments in pay, benefits, and a reduction in troops - the cut to defense spending is still likely to be insufficient to run a budget surplus. The issue is largely demographic: people are simply not having enough children to compensate for an aging population.

Correct. However it was - and still is - political suicide to adequately address these problems. The best course of action is a modest tax increase on the wealthy, taxing capital gains as income, raising the retirement age by a year or two, and significant cuts to military spending. However, cutting military spending is a non-starter. Contrary to popular belief, military spending is not largely in contracts or weapons acquisition (although there is bloat to cut there). Most military spending is in pay and benefits which cannot be touched.

That was 30 years ago when the average Baby Boomer was in the workforce. Now, those same people are retiring, at a rate of 10,000 per day. That's more Social Security money and more Medicare money that needs to be spent. As they get older and into their 80s, the healthcare costs will mount further and further. Note: the most expensive healthcare costs occur in the last year of life, which the average baby Boomer will start to reach in the 2030s. Compounding the problem is a sharply dropping birthrate. The ratio of workers-per-retiree was much higher in the 90s. Now, it is much lower. Long story short, the conditions that lead to the budget surplus in the 1990s - baby boomers in the workforce supporting a small number of retirees - is not possible today. Still, our demographic problems are not as bad as other places. The demographic apocalypse facing China, for example, is a lot more severe.

Frankly, this isn't possible. The cuts that would have to be made - or the tax increases necessary - to make programs solvent simply aren't possible. Mandatory spending (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, interest on Bonds)+ Defense takes up ~80% of all spending. Of the remaining ~20%, spending on Veterans Care and other benefits represents around 4%. That leaves around 16% of government spending that could be cut. They could fire every government employee, stop spending on education, end subsidies for agriculture and cease spending money on international affairs, stop funding science, etc. After all that, the country would still run a budget deficit of ~150 billion.

The only thing we really learned was that, finally, the fan base realizes Frost isn't the guy. It makes moving on easy. Had Nebraska finished 5-7 or 6-6, a sizeable portion of the fan base would've wanted to keep him. At least we don't have to worry about that anymore.

Urban Meyer would be an even bigger embarrassing dumpster fire. Look, I know Husker fans aren't the smartest, but Jesus: Unlike Florida and Ohio State, Nebraska won't be able to recruit their way out of whatever massive problems Urban Meyer leaves us with. There are 10 coaches that I can think of that would be better.

Nebraska: 38 Ga. Southern: 27 Pass: 250 Rush: 225

What? The team is just bad and has been for years. This coaching staff is simply unorganized, easily outclassed, and sabatoges itself with in game decisions. If anything, our local media does its best to fluff the team as much as possible, knowing full well the coach is a disaster.

We are. My post pointed to the absurdity that both sides are even remotely the same here. One side is not equivalent to the other, unless you're looking at it through MAGAvision. But hey, I say your side should keep it up. Election denial cost them 2 runoff elections in Georgia - thanks for the Senate by the way - and they're currently squandering monumental systemic electoral advantages in both the House and Senate. You guys have a 4.5% advantage in the Electoral College, you control gerrymandering across the majority of House Districs, and you have huge advantages in the Senate and your hack judges dominate the Judiciary and because of MAGA, you're still losing.

Did they incite a mob on the same day, make it a huge part of their 2020 election campaigns, make lies about election fraud baselessly undermining elections, engage in a plot to use fake state electors - a plot involving multiple Senators, the wife of a SCOTUS Justice and others - or did they hire a company like Cyber Ninjas to review ballots using poor techniques (because they didn't know what they were doing) while simultaneously finding that Joe Biden actually gained votes while ruining the voting machines in that state? Democrats are just as bad so I'm sure you have equivalent examples.

I think my comment about Conservatives making that claim did it for me. If you think a large portion of the Democratic electorate thought the election was rigged I have a sunny condo in Alaska to sell you. In no way was that common, it did not become a prerequisite to get elected, and nobody had to debase themselves to appeal to the loser of the election. But hey, I get it. You support a political party where democracy is the enemy, you gotta rationalize that support somehow. But hey - being a good steward of Democracy, I'm sure you support a President to be chosen via the popular vote, yes?

My favorite message from conservatives - while they deny election results - is their attempts to say that Democrats did it too. Like Hillary Clinton is out here demanding loyalty to her and part of that loyalty test is stating that the election was rigged. It's hilarious.

How has this contribution taken place? Which policies specifically? I'm ready to be educated.

It's always a gamble hiring a new coach. Fans realize this, but also that the current product on the field is so terrible that any other had coach can win more games. Fans can't possibly be scared of fielding a worse team because it only goes up from here folks.

I can. His 4 years of head coaching suggest this is exactly what he would do.

Huskers - 38 ND - 27 Rushing: 180 Passing: 275

Complaining about divisiveness while spouting borderline QAnan nonsense about the Clinton's having people killed is *chef's kiss*. I'm not a fan of Clinton nor did I vote for Biden during the primary. But let's not act like they're anywhere close to Trump, who caused lasting damage to our Democracy and still insists in unyielding loyalty from the party where one has to lie to huge swaths of the electorate by telling them elections are fraudulent.

Exactly. In my post I mentioned that as a matter of policy, there really are both sides. I get it. But, regarding my post, was there something incorrect @RedSavage or a point you disagreed with? Or are my factual statements leading to an uncomfortable echo chamber where other people also point out obvious crimes, anti-democratic rhetoric, etc. just something you find annoying in politics in general?

I don't understand, what should the left do here? Politely point out the crimes of Trump, and kindly ask those who defend him - in his attack on Democracy and willful violations of law - to pretty please stop? Look, you can "both sides" policy debates. I agree there are two sides to issues like Student Loan Forgiveness, Healthcare policy or funding for government programs. There are not two sides to Trumps crimes, calling his supports anti-democratic or a danger to the country, because all of that is true. You don't have to be nice or understand their side on this issue just because 70 million Americans don't see anti-democractic rhetoric, criminal intent by the leader of their party, or dangerous flirtation with white nationalism as a problem.

The good news is that Nebraska spend whatever it wants on a quality coach. Furthermore, nearly anybody - and this is not hyperbole - will be an improvement over Scott Frost. It literally can't get worse than what he's done to this program. 3-9 last year, 15-30 overall with what awaits Nebraska this November? It's bad. Perhaps Nebraska can entertain a guy like Aranda who's inherited a difficult situation in a program, much worse than Nebraska, and turned things around for Baylor. If Nebraska wants to gamble and pay a coach less, Chadwell is an option as well. Coaches like Campbell, Rhule, or nearly anybody would be fine as well. All would be improvements.

It's good to move on, but I think Nebraska fans need to collectively realize the rot that lies in Nebraska football. The next coach is going to have to rebuild Nebraska football while the league expands and gets more difficult. Assuming they hire a competent coach - no guarantee - it'll still take 3 or more seasons before they can compete for the division. Nebraska fans think that the team is "close", but frankly they aren't. The problems here run deep and it's not going to be easy to fix. I'll add: what teams like Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota are going to do to Nebraska is going to be hard to watch.

The game was all around bad. The defense was terrible, but at the end of the day, they got stops at the end of the game to give the offense a chance to win. Nebraska is simply an atrocious team top to bottom. Nebraska made a mistake being cheap by not firing Frost last season, so now we have to suffer through another likely 3-9 season, but this year the defense isn't going to prevent Nebraska from getting the doors blown off them as they give up come November, assuming they don't pack it in before then.

I was off by a TD by both teams. Nebraska football is a joke. Frost doesn't deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as Mike Riley.

If Nebraska somehow wins, which is unlikely, it'll will be in spite of Frost and not because of him. That onside kick was so catastrophically stupid he should be walked to the bus and let Whipple take control from here.

Have you seen Nebraska play the last 5 years? The second that fumble happened in the red zone this game was over.