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To: TimF who wrote (142085)	1/24/2002 1:58:05 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579753

Bush Proposes $48 Billion Defense Increase $48bil is less then 2.5% of Federal government spending, and practically a rounding error compared to the US GDP. You can argue that the defense spending is wasteful, unneeded, even slightly harmful, but its ridiculous to claim that it will cause any fans to get hit... Tim, this is 2.5% on top of the nearly 20% budgeted this past year for defense in a budget that already is projected to have a multi billion dollar deficit. If you don't see what's wrong with that kind of thinking and you don't think someone will oppose it, then we don't need to discuss it further. ted