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To: tejek who wrote (326717)	2/20/2007 10:35:28 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573885

The only strong connection between the US being rather capitalist, and its large military budget is that the US generates enough wealth in its capitalist economy to support a large defense budget. If you want to argue that we spend too much on our miltiary or that we are too militarisitic, thats changing the subject from capitalism and socialism. Tim, why are we pissing away $2 billion on an amphibious crapola machine? I don't know a lot about this specific system. I won't try to call it a good system, or the money spent a good deal, because I really don't know if either is true. OTOH $2bil for a major new weapons system isn't a very high amount of money (although perhaps this $2bil was spent with almost nothing accomplished in terms of gettign a good workable design, in that case it would be a waste) I do know that the current amphibious assault vehicle the LVT-7/AAV-7A1 was first produced in the early 70s, so its a rather old design and I could see why it would need replacing. Apparently the new design is three times as fast in water, with twice the armor, greater firepower, and higher speed on land. en.wikipedia.org