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To: TimF who wrote (139570)	10/4/2001 2:03:06 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580838

Tim, you can buy into but I will not. My reaction is the same as when welfare spending and welfare rolls continued to go up and up.....get a clue..... The difference is that military spending has continued to go down and down. If it had been going up and up these last 10 or 15 years I might be on your side on this issue. Tim, that's because we were spending more than we made. Its called deficit spending. Its the kind of spending to which we are now returning. Its what made money so expensive to borrow for so long. It was why mortgage interest rates would go up to 12% and greater during the 80's. Its why our economic expansions would be relatively short lived. After years and years of wasteful spending, its what Clinton and Congress reversed in the 90's, enabling long term expansion and cheap money. It wasn't just military spending that went down...all spending was cut.....in many cases, the military less than others. Deficit spending leads to disaster. We can't afford to live that way as individuals nor as a nation. The WTC attack happened because we were not prepared, not because not enough money had been spent on the military. We failed in Vietnam because we did not know how to fight that kind of war, not because there wasn't enough money. Our military failures when they have occurred were not because of a shortage of money. That is not a hard concept to get. No one in the world would define the US military as ragtag, desperately in need of money. On the contrary, our military is universally feared....why do you think the Afghans are running to the border? And finally, we live in a dangerous world, made more dangerous by our superpower status.....spending more and more money on defense will not change that fact. ted Enter symbols or keywords for search: