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To: tejek who wrote (130301)	1/3/2001 12:18:58 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1571444

If its a good and beneficial program, no I would not want to wait until all waste is cut from the budget. I would say that having the ability to protect our country its allies and its interests amounts to a good and beneficial program. If we were truly develop the abilities and awareness of our people, we would have less need for guns and war. Guns and war are not symbols of an advanced people, one that is evolving. Technology has changed a lot. Human nature changes much slower if at all. Just as private guns deter and defend against criminals, our military deters and defends against anyone who would attack us, our allies or our intrests. Being able to defend these things robustly with reduced risk to our militarry and our country decreases the chance that we will actually need to go to war. So I think its to our advantage to push for the advancement of our own people and encourage those same advancements for the citizens of other countries as well. I would rather spend the military $$$ on feeding the Russians and providing them with the tools to build their country, then to spend it on star wars. If you think the military wastes money, you should take a look at some of our foriegn aid programs. We all ready spend a lot of money helping Russia and some of our other potential enemies (like North Korea). Other countries (like China) it doesn't make a lot of sense to offer aid to at the moment. The tools these countries really need to build their economy are not checks from the US, but rather free and non-curupt governments, free markets, and solid rule of law. To the extent that we can help them achieve this what we can do is cheap and some of it is all ready being done but there is little we can really do here, the countries have to do this themselves. Tim

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