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To: Doren who wrote (7727)	3/30/2009 1:12:44 AM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13062

Proping up corporations (particularly since its only a small portion of all corporations) isn't propping up the economy. In fact I think the real military budget is far vaster than stated. The main cause our economy is doomed. Certainly there are military related costs that aren't in either the military budget or the supplemental budgets, but the increase from including them would be modest, not a vast increase. Saying our economy is doomed is For example both the contractors and the VA Medical costs of Iraq are not counted in the budget for the Iraq war. The VA costs are FAR less then the military budget, and a large portion of those costs are from previous wars. US troops keep the hated Saudi ruling family in power Only in the sense that we provide a security gauruantee to Saudi against invasion. It's deficit spending that dwarfs other monetary mismanagement. I with you on being against corporate subsidies, but at least until the recent bailouts subsidies, though expensive, where a small part of our budget. Typically the biggest part of the cost isn't the direct budgetary cost but the distortions and inefficiencies that corporate subsidies create. Another thing is that a lot of government money that goes to corporations ISN'T a corporate subsidy. If the government buys something and doesn't deliberately overpay its not providing a subsidy.