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

To: SecularBull who wrote (460148)	9/16/2003 10:31:55 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

From your link.... "From the standpoint of military capability, the administration's FY 1998 defense budget request perpetuates the mismatch between defense strategy and resources--the widening gap between the forces and budgets required by the national military strategy and the forces actually paid for by the defense budget. In January 1997, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated the president's defense budget to be underfunded by approximately $55 billion over the course of the next five years. However, many independent analyses, including that of the General Accounting Office, assess the shortfall to be much greater." 55B over 5 years???? About 10B/year out of a budget of about 400B/year??? And how much of that is for Star Wars fantasies????