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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (426871)	7/14/2003 4:01:03 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Agreed. There are valid and useful government expenditures in a modern 'mixed economy', above and beyond just the national defense.... But I truly doubt that port dredging and beach-front replenishment projects paid for by the government are all that good of investments. ...Particularly not good enough to justify going into long-term debt for. (If the private markets won't finance something - such as nuclear power plant construction - because the plants cost 7 times the cost of gas-fired plants to build - then usually that's telling you something useful about the expected financial returns of the 'investment') By the way, the bulk of education expenses are locally borne.