CDR: Re: And you thought Nazi agitprop was controversial?

[Lizard]

At 11:45 PM 9/16/00 -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>> The military is currently cannibalizing everything it can 
>> to keep as many units as it possibly can active.  
>
>If less of the 'defense' budget ended up spent on barracks 
>that serve no military purpose, planes that the Pentagon don't
>want and gold plated research projects, there would be no
>problem.

Actually, as we drift typically off-topic, I thought the main problem was
the curse of a booming economy -- no one needs to join the military just
because they're hiring. We no longer have a literal army of the desperate
to feed into the military machine.