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To: TimF who wrote (159950)	2/3/2003 6:33:43 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583674

You: "That big of increase is not going to happen under Bush ... " Me: His proposal. You: No. Pentagon to Increase Spending 4 Percent Fri Jan 31, 5:03 PM ET Add White House - AP Cabinet & State to My Yahoo! By KEN GUGGENHEIM, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) will propose an increase of more than 4 percent in defense spending for next year and sees annual military costs topping $500 billion by the end of the decade even without any war with Iraq, according to figures obtained by The Associated Press. ....... Budget figures specify $379.9 in Defense Department spending for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, compared with $364.6 billion in this year's budget. Overall national defense spending, which includes programs in the Energy Department and other agencies, would rise to $399.1 billion from $382.2 billion. Defense spending has increased steadily in recent years after a post-Cold War decline in the 1990s. Military spending is expected to continue rising over the next six years, according to the Pentagon figures, and reach $483.6 billion in 2009 for the Defense Department and $502.7 billion overall. story.news.yahoo.com Me: Think of it...in a country where we spend 400B in a single year to do war, we don't even have a health care system for its citizens. You: Another untrue statement by you. So you are saying that I should quit my privately paid health insurance plan in favor of the federally provided one? <<<ggg>>> House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., called the plan "a commonsense budget" that "makes the necessary investments in the future without spending our nation into bankruptcy." Amazing...only a few short years ago these same guys were taking credit for balancing the budget under a democrat in the White House. Now a trillion + (before war spending) deficit is fiscal "commonsense". What a difference a couple of years make. news.yahoo.com Al