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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (60255)	4/20/2008 1:50:14 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 543215

<<<I think Bob must have been looking at his chart wrong? I believe it is even worse than the chart shows as the Iraq stuff has been passed off budget hasn't it?>>> On the one hand they say, it is only several hundred billion dollars representing a very small percentage in terms of GDP and budget, and on the other hand they say we can't afford to fix SS for good (making it solvent forever) for a fraction of the cost of the war. What is the thinking process of these smaller government types?