From the Virginian Pilot on Jan 26, 2018...the US is sending a aircraft carrier to Vietnam, the first since the end of the war there in 1975. China is not happy about our improving relationship with Vietnam. Are we trying to provoke another conflict in southeast Asia? To think that we were told that if Vietnam went communist the whole of southeast Asia would follow, and for that reason we fought a war there that killed 58,000 American young men and injured thousands more. The policy makers now say they were wrong about our need to fight that war, but none of them went to prison and many continued to make US foreign policy. I buy products now made in Vietnam and it just pisses me off that the country we destroyed and lost countless lives in is now a trading partner.
Our Secretary of Defense recently said that we have to prepare for war with Russia and China so must increase our defense spending to further absurd levels.
Maybe I don't know what I am really trying to say here, but the Vietnam War was the war of my age and the whole experience (like being drafted and then having that chicken hawk Don Rumsfeld telling us that draftees did nothing for the war effort), to this day just angers me. Vietnam War veterans are the ones who really deserve our thanks.
The Virginian Pilot recently reported on the pending sale of a concrete plant in Cape Charles, VA (on the tip of the Eastern Shore). In 2014 the plant got a $ 1.2 million incentive "from state and local government" to enlarge its facility there and had agreed to hire 135 workers. "The company laid off 81 workers a year later when the expansion was finished, and it closed a Chesapeake plant"
Amazon is set to gain from the income tax plan of donald trump, and I read in the news (1/23/18) that the company is planing of "no cashiers, no registers, no cash-this is how Amazon sees the future of store shipping". (So much for the tax plan creating jobs).
