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I think I flattened that canard some time ago, didn't I?
Tom Brosz — (archived)

Do a little research (for a change) and find out how much of our budget does NOT actually end up in American pockets. Including the billions going to Iraq.

I think last time you batted it weakly back over the net by saying something along the lines of paying a doctor to treat someone is GOOD spending, while paying a worker to build an armored vehicle is BAD spending.

I'm sure everyone in America has their own opinions on what spending is good and bad.

I dare say I could find a lot of people who would call the money spent by NASA a complete waste.

And of course the bottom line, literally, is that adding trillions to the budget, on ANY spending program, is not a good thing. If Kerry or some other Democrat is successful, in fifty years Iraq's costs will be as distant a memory as the costs of the War in Korea, but hundreds of billions a year will still be feeding the bottomless maw of socialized medicine.

(Would a flattened canard be the same thing as a pressed duck?)

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