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To: tejek who wrote (285172)	5/9/2006 6:26:49 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573435

The war is the icing on the cake........along with the tax cuts, its what puts us into the red. You can take any item and say "its what puts us in the red", considering all other spending to be covered by revenue. You could say "Medicare, and Medicaid put us in to the red", or any other group of programs you want to focus on. It is more reasonable to divide the deficit up proportionately among the various spending categories. Measured that way the war in Iraq only causes a small portion of our deficit. Its the equivalent of you buying a second car and joining an expensive country club. Measured against a typical persons income, its more like getting digital cable or satellite TV combined with high speed internet access. Of course someone who is spending money hand over fist on other things might not be able to afford digital cable, but if he is spending much more on the other things its a bit silly to blame his financial situation on the cable bill.