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While I might not agree with all of Rags points, I would say that the "guns or butter" debated gets rather skewed in the last 50 years. The refrain amoung the disenfranchised, like our pre-school poster, is, "if we can spend a million on an airplane, why can't we fund XYZ social program." It is never that simple and US Marines are not made over night but tend to be indispensable when the world turns nasty. The national defense is government's primary responsibility, we can figure out how to get the mail delivered at our leisure.
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