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To: Lane3 who wrote (59786)	4/17/2008 5:19:12 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 543061

In addition to the VA, you also have some of the nuclear weapons costs paid for by the Department of Energy. But with less such weapons, and less nuclear weapons research, I suspect this cost is a much smaller percentage of our budget than it was in the past even with our much smaller military. Some people also lump in the Coast Guard, or the whole Department of Homeland Security, but I don't think doing so is appropriate. A lot of that is law enforcement, and even the areas that aren't are not part of the military. Counting an estimate of future veterans costs as part of the military budget would be very similar to counting the estimate of unfunded liabilities for future retirees as part of the Social Security budget... In neither case do I think that it should technically be part of the current budget, but in both cases the figure should get as much attention as the official budget figure and it does not.