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To: TimF who wrote (233957)	5/20/2005 10:01:45 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576310

re: If the spending you are referring to it just the spending in Iraq, then 1 - Its unlikely to stay at this level for 10 years, and 2 - Even if you double the spending 10 years of it isn't the type of spending that will sink a $14tril economy. I thought you were talking about our overall spending not the spending on Iraq (which is less than one percent of our GDP and less than 5% of our federal government spending). LOL, you are for incremental deficit spending... it's not harmful in your opinion? I thought you were the guy that said anything that was a bit worse was a lot worse? Do you even recognize the dangers of the twin deficits?

To: TimF who wrote (233957)	5/21/2005 3:35:09 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576310

Like I said, no two countries are the same. If your going to assert something that crazy it might not be worth talking to you about this subject. It can be no worse that posting to someone who is seriously blinded by his politics. Countries do not stay on top forever......history is littered with has-been empires. You GOP types continue on your current path and this country will be going down sooner rather than later. I am talking ten years down the road spending like we are spending today. "Why do you assume that this will be the case?" That's what some military generals are saying.......the ones not beholden to this White House. ?!? What generals are you talking about and why are they such great experts in the US budget over the next 10 years that I should defer to them? What? Do you think I remember every general who makes a comment? They said the war could go on for another 9-10 years, meaning that mandatory spending will remain at high levels. If the spending you are referring to it just the spending in Iraq, then 1 - Its unlikely to stay at this level for 10 years, and 2 - Even if you double the spending 10 years of it isn't the type of spending that will sink a $14tril economy. You aren't much of a budget person.......assuming business as usual into the forseeable is a common mistake made by poorly managed corporations and nations. Should the US experience a number of catastrophes and/or wars, we could be in serious trouble. I thought you were talking about our overall spending not the spending on Iraq (which is less than one percent of our GDP and less than 5% of our federal government spending). You act as if that is the only spending that is required of the US. Iraq and Afghanistan are on top of the typical spending the US experiences in any given year. On a budget, Iraq would be put into the budget item called Extraordinary Expense. First the incidence is much higher than previous wars. If the percentage is diagnosed higher its because we are much quicker to recognize psychological problems today. In the past the condition often wouldn't be noticed or if it was there was no great effort to deal with it, people where just sent back to the front. Measure modern stress problems by the standards of WWII or send someone back in time to diagnose WWII stress problems the same way we do now and its just about certain that the stress and the problems it caused were much worse then. Its not just military PSST that gets diagnosed more often, all sorts of psychological problems get diagnosed at levels many times the level from decades ago. You know, I can't do this. I could say the sky was blue and you would come back and say its green. Morale is bad in Iraq. In fact, morale is bad in the US. Your people are smelling up the joint! <end of story> ted