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To: epicure who wrote (244830)	2/17/2014 3:24:47 PM
From: Rarebird	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542229

<<In many ways the military is the kind of government democrats like- a jobs program.>> Of course, I know. When I taught high school in the South Bronx (the worst ghetto in the US at the time) for a year in the early 80s, all my students wanted to go into the military because that meant a free college education. <<You don't care about how many people we incarcerate for drug crimes?>> It depends on what they are selling. I'm not a heroine, cocaine, crack supporter. I care more about the bomber planes and killer submarines being built and how that money could be redirected toward merit based scholarships for college and improved social services. Education is the great equalizer. Of all people, you should know that.

To: epicure who wrote (244830)	2/17/2014 3:49:25 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542229

I see that as the biggest risk to cutting the military as drastically as it deserves to be cut, the economic harm it would cause to this country. When we do finally do it, we'll have to do it gradually. More and more Americans are waking up to the fact that we're spending more now than we did during the Cold War, when the only real threat we face are stateless terrorists with no country, no army, no billions. How the military thinks they can continue to sell that is a mystery to me. Not that any pol ever brings it up or that it ever makes the news.