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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (28318)	5/7/2008 6:06:47 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

"They don't do it because they are not allowed to do it," That is CORRECT. That is the fact of law that I pointed out. (Several times now....) "that fact "doesn't make the expenses off budget in any important way." Eh? Never said that the regulations made these ongoing expenses 'important' or 'not important'. No, the expenses are IMPORTANT in and off themselves for one simple reason: because they are large enough to be economically quite significant. This years current expense run-rate: in excess of $200 Billion. (Each year has cost more then the previous... since the war's inception.) Total outlays (this still disregards significant major expenses that are 'locked in' for the future, yet haven't been realized yet such as decades of medical expenses for vets, costs to restock and rebuild military, etc., etc.): in excess of $550 Billion thus far.