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To: JDN who wrote (10320)	11/3/2007 1:47:09 PM
From: Travis_Bickle	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

We have spent a great deal of money to improve the security of our infrastructure, but those improvements will yield benefits over many years, and thus should be amortized, not expensed. Continual improvements in that area are a good investment and a useful expenditure of our funds. With regard to military actions outside our borders, looking at them from a vengeance/determent/prevention standpoint they seem like a waste of money to me, I'm in favor of violent retribution and vengeance for the 9/11 attacks but after all the hundreds of billions of dollars and six years gone, I don't see how the people who died that day have been avenged. Our government did not have to waste all that money, it did so because most of us were blinded by emotion at the time. We shouldn't compound that mistake.