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To: Dayuhan who wrote (13099)	10/19/2003 11:35:16 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793559

Looking at the recent growth spurt, I'd have to say that fiscal policy was less an issue than demographic and technological factors. HERESY! Think what you're saying, man! We all know this was due to the brilliant management of the economy by AG and Clinton! Don't we? :-) You better be careful where you say that. You do it on GWB and half the thread will jump you. The wrong half. :-) Hard to draw a causative link based on correlation But a lot better than NOT having correlation! :-) especially when there are so many extraneous features involved. Working on those. More to come. Nonetheless, some hard decisions do have to be made if the military budget and fiscal needs are going to be reconciled - and that's the job of the administration in power. NOT that simple. Congress passes budgets, not the President. The President gets a lump to use or throw away. Congress has gotten quite good at sticking all kinds of interesting plums in those lumps. Plums from their POV, anyway. There is no point in trying to maintain a force structure that was designed to fight an antagonist that no longer exists. I presume you are referring to the US nuclear missile force. That antagonist still exists. Russia still has thousands of missiles with tens of thousands of warheads. If we have no deterrent, they tell us what we shall do. And other nations are working on nuclear missile capability. Kansas is actually not so bad, though the transition from Oz to Kansas was, for many of us, a bit on the rugged side. So rough that some had to be dragged out kicking and screaming and still are complaining most vociferously.