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Would you recommend reading Catch-22? I have never read it but always wanted to. Never found the time yet....

Why would the federal government meddle in sheep fencing, presumably on private land, in Boyertown, PA? Was this part of the $5,000,000 earmarked for the American Lamb Board for "Measuring the Climate Benefits and Emissions of Prescribed Sheep Grazing"? Are you suggesting that without federal farm subsidies we will not be able to get food?

Just a quick thought....What is on the back of the truck? Any type of specialized body? depending on build date, a 2004 Granite is nearly 26 years old at this point. If its just a chassis then good/decent, inspected, and running examples are a dime a dozen at this point. Is this job even worth the money and effort? Obviously you already own a "new" engine so my question my be moot if you can't return it for a refund. Not being disrespectful but just looking at the big picture.

Sounds like he is asking about new rims not tires. Where would you even find new 24", dayton, tube type rims? Overseas perhaps. Going off Vlad's pics from his motorcycle trip through Iran they seem to still be quite common on new trucks. I doubt there is anything like that still produced in this country. Maybe though. As to what size to get I would say whatever you have now. I believe they came in 8 and 8.5" widths depending on hub length and spacer bands used. 3 Piece Tubetype Wheels & Rims - GMI Wheels They have demountables in 8" and 10" width and discs in 8", 8.5" and 10" widths. My guess is you have 8 or 8.5" inch wide rims. My B81 had 8.5" wide rims....

They announced back in November they would be launching a new "flagship" highway semi truck in 2025. Probably just a Volvo VNL with a different grill and a bulldog on the hood.

Pretty hard to beat an EFM 520. I never got into stokers but am familiar. It’s not uncommon to hear of ones running essentially nonstop for decades without fault. I’m pretty sure they still make them pretty much unchanged from the original design.

Are you still in business? How do you heat that sucker? I couldn't imagine heating 10,000 sft just to tinker with old trucks.

Thats what I mean. Its like all these contracts or debits are so ridiculous it seems fake. The only way it makes sense is if the politicians that signed off on this garbage are somehow connected to the foreign entities receiving the money. Laundering the taxpayers' money to line their own pockets. It would be nice if they published who or what company is the actual receiver of these monies.

I know there is concerns with the "legality" or involvement of Musk in the administration. I've heard him called a "co president" as well as the same unelected bureaucrat he seeks to eliminate. I personally have zero issue with the man. I just wish he would not use his privately owned X platform as the basis for DOGE's website. I don't know how X makes money. I'm guessing from advertising throughout peoples' feeds. Obviously Musk doesn't need the money and I don't believe he is doing this for profit but using X as a quasi government website is a blatant conflict of interest and low lying fruit for the opposition. Hopefully there is something in the works that doesn't involve X. That however is a catch 22. Creating a new government website to post government waste and inefficiencies on is indeed wasteful and inefficient 😁

I know Trump, for the most part, actually does what he says he is going to do. I think sometime in December he mentioned DOGE, but had probably been preemptively planning it for a while in case he won the election. But here it is on a website you can somewhat follow along on. It almost seems fake. Like this stuff I'm reading the department is flagging for elimination is bat$hit bizarre. Like a $25,000 debit for "empowering LGTBQIA+ refugees in Greece". Like who is authorizing this garbage. Its almost like it isn't real. Assuming it is real the transparency is insane. Like this department is literally opening these crooked books for everyone to see. I can't ever recall a time where anything like this has happened before. Maybe that is why it almost seems fake....The level of transparency and bluntness is nothing you would ever get from an establishment politician.

Case In point. Per DOGE's website (assuming its accurate) the federal agency with the most regulations is the USDA.....21,060 separate pieces of regulation.

That is what you get as a result of industrial agriculture on a commodity-based system rather than subsistence agriculture or farms operating on a direct-to-consumer model. Prices for that stuff will never come down under the current arrangement. Big ag is no joke. The entire industry (row cropping) is a monopoly controlled by about 5 or 6 entities. JD, Archer Daniels Midland, Bayer, Dow Cargill & most importantly the US Govt. The meat side of it is no better. Vertically integrated into oblivion. Owned by 3 or 4 corporations. Farming in this country has been made into a disaster IMO.

Are farm subsidies on the chopping block? I haven't heard. If they are I would guess they would have to be cancelled via a revised congressional budget. My guess is its much easier to get away with cancelling "foreign aid" than a something like domestic farm subsidies. I don't really know though. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Secretary Hegseth certainly walks the walk and talks the talk. I get the impression he is not pi$$ing around. I'm not really sure what the best experience would be to be considered the best or even a good secretary of defense. Only two of them since WWII have been generals and only about half of them have had actual military experience prior to becoming secretary. Hegseth has a good deal of real word experience and some actual combat experience in Iraq / Afghanistan. He is used to seeing the military at 3,500 ft. He's now at 30,000 ft. and looking down. I hope he knows what he's looking at. I hope he can get the armed forces as a whole straightened out and hopefully get recruitment moving in the correct direction.

End the Fed.