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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (748675)	10/22/2013 2:57:24 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573417

At this moment, we spend over $400 billion a year with wasteful military spending (I think $250m is the amount that makes sense), which IS a stimulus, one the (R)'s somehow find totally acceptable. Why is that, Ten? It's the worst sort of stimulus. Eventually, the million dollar cruise missile blows up, costs us two million (counting replacing it), costs whoever was on the other end the price of what was blown up, even if it was just an Arab funeral. We could spend that money on OUR infrastructure, or OUR citizens. Military spending is never returned to the citizens, where social spending IS.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (748675)	10/22/2013 11:07:43 PM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573417

>b) Meeting the needs of infrastructure has always been a baseline government function. That does not change based on the vicissitudes of the economy. I'd like it to be that way. We might not need stimulus in the first place it that were the case. >But if that project were useful enough, it would have taken priority over all the other items in the budget. Because, only one project in four trillion dollars of federal government spending can be useful. Right. -Z