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RE: Fighter gap?
By gamerk2 on 7/12/2010 9:25:54 AM , Rating: 1
Under Regan, with the rise in tensions with the Soviet Union, Defense spending rose to 10% of GDP.

Today, defense spending is 20% of GDP.

Look, that type of spending is simply not sustainable, period.

As for SS, its paid for by seperate taxes, and politicians were all to happy to borrow from the fund for years. Its an entirely paid for program, which can remain solvent with several minor changes [politically unpopular though...]. As for Medicare/Medicade, those programs may be government run, but they still operate within the free market, so the same price problems we deal with are still in effect. [Hence why I badly wanted a Public Option; the price problem hasn't gone away...]

RE: Fighter gap?
By monkeyman1140 on 7/12/2010 10:11:36 AM , Rating: 3
There was a country that tried to maintain such a huge military for no real reason, it was called the Soviet Union.

I guess we haven't learned the lesson.


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