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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (16544)	2/2/2004 8:46:13 PM
From: marginmike	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

Country is broke because of waste, graft and a lack of administration of assets. We have plenty of money, just wasting it on lots of useless programs. the fact is we are at war, on several fronts, that will break any budget.

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (16544)	2/2/2004 9:59:41 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 306849

I think we ought to sell the US military. We don't really need it, the rest of the world thinks we're chumps for having it and maintaining it. It seems to only get us in trouble. When was the last time we used it to actually defend our own country? Just keep the national guard and some reasonable fraction of our ballistic missiles and subs, maybe an aircraft carrier group in each ocean. We spend more than the next 20 countries combined on defense - why?