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good article, cellscape
yeah, it doesn't help matters when military contracts & sub-contracts both are filled with fraud & pork-barrel spending
under Reagan the gov't had the whole arms race thing to steal money from, Bush, Sr. the whole illegal arms/coke trading & the nat'l debt rose to an unprecedented 3 trillion. Avoiding a meltdown, Clinton more-or-less balanced the budget by not stealing from contracts & with the help of an inflated IT market on his side for a few years, but things were still looking up for the new century & millenium. Now with dubya, the debt is back into the many trillions of dollars. (a little over 8 trillion at last check). It's thievery...pure & simple. These situations are invented so that they can steal. There's not so much that's Made in USA anymore, but our highest ranking politicians are quite adept at manufacturing ways that they can steal. Seth Green remarked on Real Time with Bill Maher that the national debt ticker near Times Square has already been replaced, but he is wrong about that. It won't be too long from now, however, before our debt will hit 10 trillion necessitating the need for a new readout that will accommodate more digits.
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