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To: KyrosL who wrote (71962)	1/3/2010 3:07:49 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Respond to of 74559

I think I could cut more than 50% of government budgets. Visiting any government department in any country shows similar things. It's not often I see government processes in action and think what they are doing is a good thing well done. The Millau bridge is pretty good and compared with what we are told we can get in NZ for the same amount of money, a bargain. I quite like Hubble too and perhaps the Hadron super-collider is a good thing [I have no idea really but it certainly beats another $100 billion on superfluous military hardware and $1 trillion on welfare]. Come to think of it, we could put a Millau Bridge over the Waitemata harbour with shorter columns. Mqurice