The reason I bring up the F16s is not to serve an easy lob so you may agree that you hate “wasteful spending”; that wasteful spending is called the Defense Budget, and accounts for a far greater waste than any of your conservative sacred cows, like welfare, and the Dept. of Education, and the Dept. of Energy, and the NEA. When you, or Bush, talk about “giving taxpayers more control over their money”, perhaps you ought consider that at least 49% of us think that Iraq is a big giant waste of that very money.

If you were sincere in your pretense of being a fiscal conservative, or if he even gave a damn what we think, you would begin with the largest money pits, not the smallest.

Note also that I am not advocating the abolition of the DoD; I am merely observing that opportunities for belt-tightening and elimination of graft are much vaster there than anywhere else in the government.

In general, I agree with you. However, this is an example of something that I’ve never understood the need for in the first place. Without bringing up the “B” word (which someone was helpful enough to point out that I can’t spell), the fact is that money is wasted on an unnecessary process of shifting from place to place. Very little of the money goes to actually educating children.
-Keith

As for paying for it, how about we abolish the Department of Education? Why should we send money to DC so that they can waste it on beauraucracy…

I’m not so sure I share your anarchic belief that the best way to fix something is to destroy it. Also, I apologize for not addressing your actual complaint more, but my eyes start to glaze over whenever conservatives start to throw around the word “bureaucracy”. If it makes you feel any better though, I feel the same way when people on my side abuse the word “corporation”.

I bow to your intellectual superiority. Bad spelling is part of my strategery. Incidentally, I actual bought a dictionary before I decided against buying one.

Then he(she? no offense meant if I use the wrong pronoun) said: “Maybe Mr Frist could sell some of the surplus F-16s that sit in the desert, rotting, because we bought too fucking many of them. Or is that too much like the truth for you? LOL! Moron.”

Wasteful spending is wasteful spending, and I won’t defend it.

As for calling me a moron, I repeat my sentiment that name calling points out your inability to carry on a debate based upon ideas. It says more about you than it does me, I assure you.
-Keith

Maybe Mr Frist could sell some of the surplus F-16s that sit in the desert, rotting, because we bought too fucking many of them. Or is that too much like the truth for you? LOL! Moron.

Yeah…can’t you just see Bill Frist and Dick Gephardt trying get another $.25 for that tape dispenser that once sat on LBJ’s desk? LOL. GREAT IDEA! Very funny!
-Keith

If not that, maybe a booster, door to door program. Inside D.C. At night.