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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Peter O'Brien who wrote (539840)2/13/2004 11:43:08 AM
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"Military spending is near an all-time low as a % of the total federal budget."

>>> No. Not 'all-time low'.

>>> Perhaps over the span of the last 30 years... but there are plenty of times previous to that when it was lower.

>>> I think the more important questions are: is the spending adequate to provide for our security, and are we spending the money wisely?

>>> Considering the collapse of the other Super Power, the fact that we spend as much as the next 15 or 20 largest military spenders in the world *combined*, and the fact that the Pentagon has repeatedly been unable to pass a GAO audit for *years*... and actually can't account for a couple of hundred billion of spending... I'd say my two questions above are fair to ask.
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