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Politics : John EDWARDS for President -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: redfish who wrote (523)	2/23/2004 11:36:03 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 1381

I'm sure Bushies are overspending on military now. I'll bet there's tons of pork barrel spending plus a few SDI type boondoggles costing tns of billions which don't even work. Everyone if for a strong and potent defense, but leaving defense spending off the table in terms of possible cuts is just stupid. Halliburton for instance has proven it's over-chaging the Pentagon by hundreds of millions. All that waste needs to be eliminated.

To: redfish who wrote (523)	2/23/2004 7:24:47 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 1381

redfish, We should start charging nations that benefit from our military. For instance, once Afghanistan & Iraq become stabilized, they could start repaying the USA on the installment plan. Training a well-disciplined, effective volunteer military seems to be one of our areas of expertise, other nations could hire a certain portion in order to improve the quality of their own troops & in that way our fighting forces would become self supportive. The tax revenues saved could be directed to social security & other endangered programs.