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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (141955)1/20/2002 9:19:42 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1585449
 
Well, just about every other one of his 'prizes' was for a military spending blunder.

The $600 hammers are cost accounting anomalies that have nothing to do with the real cost of hammers -- to the military or anyone else. Had the government paid $12 for the hammers, the other $588 would have had to have been paid elsewhere. This is just one of those issues where it is too damned complicated to explain to America in a soundbite, and unfortunately, it becomes the subject of political debate when it shouldn't.

the threat to our well being he kept saying it was in public

This is typical liberal revisionism. Reagan, almost single handedly, brought eliminated nuclear proliferation, ended the Cold War, and brought down the Russian military. This is what strength in political leadership is all about.

If you want to talk about wasteful spending, how about the $10 Billion SSC? We get several billion into the project before cancelling it. Now THAT was fiscal incompetence.
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