JB>> Correct.  Our national defense should not be sacrificed.  I suggest
  JC> you JB>look at the US budget and compare the real dollar budgets of
  JC> each
  JB>> cabinet department.  Look closely at the Department of HHS.  You may
  JB>> find it enlightening.

  JC> You may find this odd, but the horse pulls the wagon, not the other
  JC> way around. Where do you get the high tech industry and workers to
  JC> build the weapons systems? Oddly enough, in part by the efforts of
  JC> HHS.

  JC> But what the heck, perhaps you can outsource the military too.

BA> The military has already outsourced many of its functions, some of them
years
BA> if not decades ago.

BA> AF dining halls (mess halls, chow halls, etc.) have been run by civilian

I went over this with the airman a couple of years ago.  Do we need to do it
again?

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