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FSogol

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7. How about the entire Foreign Service?

Reply to Are_grits_groceries (Original post)

Wed Jan 4, 2012, 08:29 AM

Jan 2012

Embassies in each country? Why not regional embassies with tiny consular offices in each country to aid traveling citizens. With our current transportation and communications, having embassies is wasteful.

On plumbing, composting toilets and waterless urinals exist, but people dislike the added hassle. Look at how the GOP rails against low-flow toilets and incandescent light bulbs.

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