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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (581536)6/9/2004 6:44:12 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
"The debt of military buildup under Pres Reagan was an extremely wise investment which resulted in the peace dividend during Clinton's yrs."

1) The military build-up accounted for only a very SMALL PART of the tripling of the national debt.

2) But... if you want to focus on the small matters, I'd argue that most of the money spent on Star Wars (nothing deployed, no functional design arrived at during the Reagan 8 years), or on the Battleship refits (soon taken out of service again) were not terribly cost-effective.
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