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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2286)	10/12/2000 8:59:37 PM
From: long-gone	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

<<Again, Steven is right (although I think the military budget has been cut too much over the past 8 years).. more money would not have changed a thing.>> No He Isn't! FRAUD & THEFT by this administration has CHEATED the children of our fighting men & women! See "military bases was stolen from the U.S. Department of Education" U.S. Department of Education Funds Diverted Unnoticed Source: U.S. House of Representatives, Education and Workforce Committee Fraud and abuse: $1.9 million of education funds meant for children who live on Indian reservations and military bases was stolen from the U.S. Department of Education and diverted to two bank accounts. Withdrawals made in the form of cashiers checks were used to purchase a $49,900 Cadillac Escalade, a $50,000 Lincoln, and a $135,000 house in Maryland. The rest of the money was then moved into other bank accounts. Background: Impact Aid is a $906 million Department of Education program designed to help local communities educate school children living on federal lands, such as Indian reservations or military facilities, which don’t contribute to the local property tax base. Last April, two South Dakota school districts did not receive their Impact Aid funds. Because it is not unusual for Impact Aid payments to be late, the school districts did not immediately notify the Department of Education. Sometimes school districts must take out loans and pay interest while waiting for the Department of Education to issue the grants. "We didn’t have to empty the pop machines to make payroll, but it came close," said Chris Anderson, superintendent of the Bennett County school system in Wager, South Dakota. The school system waited a month for the funds. In a civil action filed in July, the Justice Department alleged that thieves stole the $1.9 million intended for the two school districts in South Dakota. They have not yet specified if criminal charges will be brought. Status: The Department of Education has been on the General Accounting Office "high risk" list, which is a list of agencies most vulnerable to waste, fraud and abuse. Also, the U.S. House of Representatives recently passed legislation requiring an independent audit of this troubled Department. At a recent hearing, Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), chairman of the Education’s Subcommittee on Oversight, said, "I don’t know what, if anything, the White House is planning to do in response. But I know that this Subcommittee is determined not to let an agency off the hook that is the steward for a $40 billion budget of federal education dollars and the administrator of federal student loan programs in which there is currently about $175 billion in outstanding debt to be monitored and collected." house.gov

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (2286)	10/12/2000 10:15:32 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

It's not a matter of shooting at any civilian craft that comes too close. There should be a suitable small boat in the water, with both Navy people and local authorities on board (the same way that SPs team with local cops during liberty calls), challenging craft that come within whatever distance is reasonable under local conditions and running explosives checks on vessels that claim a reason to approach. If a craft is hailed and speeds straight for the Navy vessel, obviously shooting becomes a legitimate option, though ideally it would be the local authorities that do it. I don't see it as an Intelligence failure. In a port like Yemen a terrorist threat should be assumed.