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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (141952)1/20/2002 9:06:02 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1585293
 
This is what happened during the Reagan administration. Reagan took over a military that couldn't even complete the simple task of extracting our hostages from Iran without the equipment falling apart on the scene (Ross Perot, on the other hand, was totally successful in getting his employees out without incident). Now, Reagan, understanding that our military could not be allowed to collapse further, spent the next eight years building it back up (to Gulf War capabilities), admittedly watching the deficits accumulate.

No true fiscal conservative could sit by and watch how money is poured down a military black hole year after year. Who was the WI senator who gave out prizes whenever money was wasted on a gov't expenditure........I think he called it the fleecing of America? Well, just about every other one of his 'prizes' was for a military spending blunder. No fiscal conservative could take that kind of waste.

And as for Reagan, in the 80's, he was pushing hard for star wars when he knew full well that Russia was on the verge of collapse.........hardly the threat to our well being he kept saying it was in public.....kind of like another K. Lay. Sad.......that he's the best you can come up with.
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