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

To: Hoa Hao who wrote (2417)	10/14/2000 12:26:58 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

Your paranoia about third world nations hurting the US and willingness to spent hundreds of billions of dollars on a satellite defence system which has never even worked (and may never in our lifetimes) is akin to someone buying buying expensive flood insurance in the Mohave Desert. China is one thing, but anyone who fears North Korea or Pakistan's missile capability vs. the US is like a child scared of the boogey-man. All this talk about "Rogue Nations" threatening our borders is just a group of military special interests (their interests) trying to irrationally scare the American people. They ought to be ashamed of themselves. And anyone who thinks this won't won't 400 billion (current list price 200 billion) doesn't remember the huge cost over-runs of unproven dis-functional weapons systems of the past. That 400 billion or even 200 billion would be better spent paying down the national debt. remember too that until we do pay off the debt this is all credit card buying by the government. Hardly discally "conservative". The Democrats have become the fiscally conservative party now. Bush has no plan for paying down the debt at all. He's rather waste hundreds of billions defending us against non-existent threads.

To: Hoa Hao who wrote (2417)	10/14/2000 7:37:48 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 10042

eventually the Russians will wake up to the fact that adjusting the ABM treaty is also in their interests. If they don't we have the right to withdraw from the treaty after giving notice. BTW, India is Ahead of the US in particle beam development. I strongly doubt this is true. Even if it is we are far ahead in all the other SDI technolgies (lasers, space lift capability, tracking systems, anti-missile missiles, optics, and so on) Tim