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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: Hoa Hao who wrote (2417)10/14/2000 12:26:58 PM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (2) of 10042
 
Your paranoia about third world nations hurting the US and willingness to spent hundreds of billions of dollars on a satellite defence system which has never even worked (and may never in our lifetimes) is akin to someone buying buying expensive flood insurance in the Mohave Desert.
China is one thing, but anyone who fears North Korea or Pakistan's missile capability vs. the US is like a child scared of the boogey-man. All this talk about "Rogue Nations" threatening our borders is just a group of military special interests (their interests) trying to irrationally scare the American people. They ought to be ashamed of themselves. And anyone who thinks this won't won't 400 billion (current list price 200 billion) doesn't remember the huge cost over-runs of unproven dis-functional weapons systems of the past. That 400 billion or even 200 billion would be better spent paying down the national debt. remember too that until we do pay off the debt this is all credit card buying by the government. Hardly discally "conservative". The Democrats have become the fiscally conservative party now. Bush has no plan for paying down the debt at all. He's rather waste hundreds of billions defending us against non-existent threads.
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