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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (290159)	6/6/2006 1:56:56 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1571911

re: the point is that eventually we'll get out of Iraq and Afghanistan, but we'll always have social entitlement programs. Yes we will "eventually" get out of Iraq and Afghanistan but we will probably continue to spend more on our military than the next 4-5 countries put together. re: Besides, defense and Homeland security isn't more than 25-33% of the federal budget, depending on whether you include Social Security or not. Not if you include the indirect spending... things like the post-military entitlements. 12K people have been seriously wounded in Iraq, many of those people will be supported for the rest of their lives. Maybe 50,000/100,000 will need psychiatric treatment. re: Some tough choices will have to be made, but by then we'll already be in crisis mode. What's your point? That we should start paying it down now? Well geez, thanks for reminding me, Uncle John! I'm only told that by you ABBers once every day. You would think it would sink in.