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To: Lane3 who wrote (60436)	4/21/2008 8:04:53 AM
From: Bearcatbob	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541851

Well - the magnitude of the problem is huge. We best get on with developing a national consensus on how to deal with it - or the markets will do it for us. Means testing is one to start. Radically reducing the military is inevitable. A leader is needed. Just imagine if Barack had come out and said that John McCain did not want a 100 year war in Iraq. And that Barack would partake in that slander. What a change. But no - he got down and dirty. It was a huge opportunity lost.

To: Lane3 who wrote (60436)	4/21/2008 9:08:16 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541851

<<<I could do that in the bureaucracy. But the bureaucracy is a rather minor budget element. Twenty percent of not much is even less much.>>> The Federal government is all bureaucracy. They don't make anything. There is no cost of goods. There is no R&D. There is no marketing and sales. There is no profit. DoD may be a little different, but anyone who has been in the military will know there is waste in purchasng, inventory, R&D, and bureaucracy. If you can get rid of 20% of bureaucracy, that s a big, big number.