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To: bentway who wrote (261879)	12/11/2005 11:52:11 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1572969

Frequently we read of the "growing Chinese threat" - but we currently spend ten times what they do on the military. We do spend a lot more than they do, but they spend a lot that isn't on their official military budget, so the difference is less than it might seem even if it is still large. Also the fact that they force (draft) people in to the military with very low pay (low even by Chinese standards), is a way that they devote resources to their military without actually spending a ton of cash. The lost productivity of the people in the military doesn't show up on a military budget but it is a real cost. Even considering all of that we put more resources in to our military, but than we have more resources to spend and when combat happens would would prefer to spend more money and less lives. You might argue that we shouldn't be in Iraq, and that if we were not we could spend less on defense, but that hardly is a good argument for the idea that we should not spend a lot more than the Chinese. Tim

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