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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (374720)	3/22/2008 12:18:28 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575803

Ten, SS is a self-funded liability that is running in surplus. What that means is currently, it's running ENTIRELY on the taxes people have paid specifically for that purpose. So, DON'T count that in your cheapskate crabbing. If you SUBTRACT that, most of our national expense IS the military and the interest on the doubled debt since Bush has been in office. No question!

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (374720)	3/24/2008 11:40:46 PM
From: RMF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575803

"what about the other $2 trillion"? That number is going to keep going UP. I don't see how you can CUT after you get down to a certain point. I don't see infrastructure costs, or entitlement costs, or education costs or government employment costs going DOWN. I wouldn't want to be the guy running for office that ran on a platform of spending LESS on roads or schools or firing the mailmen in his district so private enterprise could take their jobs. I can't think of ANY country that is seeing their domestic spending going down. Look at China...their domestic spending is rising faster than ours. They have some major infrastructure problems that became rather glaring in that big snowfall of theirs. They also have a lot of "unfunded" pension liabilities that are starting to come home to roost. That was basically my point in saying that you can't support "blackhole military budgets" (where you just throw in a $100 billion here and there because the Pentagon asks for it) and expect to just "Borrow" the trillions necessary to do it.