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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 (2303)	10/12/2000 11:08:30 PM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 10042

we have a very top-heavy military chock full of staff officers and program managers, who are capturing a serious amount of the military personnel budget to the detriment of the lower ranks. Amen. And lets not forget the "consultancies" that are granted as overpaid sinecures for retired members of the old-boy network. We lose a shekel or two down that black hole every year. And the fellows that go straight from uniform to the lobbying staff of the defence corporations, and get paid major bucks - all of which get tossed back to the procurement budget - to go around trying to convince people that China will take over the Panama Canal if we don't spend a few more tens of billions....