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

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

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

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

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

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

It was especially touching when this blossom tried to explain 
macroeconomics to me in the Fidonet echo but ended up ranting about jobs 
moving overseas.  After the election, I think this week you should call 
it An Especially Good Week in Politics.


Jeff

CMPQwk 1.42-21 9999 
Socialism can work until you run out of everyone elses money .....

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