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[lookout123]

Again, that's a good reply to a statement I didn't make. Please point to the part where I said cutting costs was the solution? Cutting costs would be a welcome and needed byproduct of cutting out the fraud, waste, and abuse in the R&D process. You're so quick to regurgitate your factoids that you don't even stop to contemplate whether you do in fact disagree with a post.

[tw]

Originally Posted by lookout123

Cutting costs would be a welcome and needed byproduct of cutting out the fraud, waste, and abuse in the R&D process.

On that we agree. But anything you might say is not the point. I deal with the realities. The topic is waste and excessive spending. No problem. I gave two simple examples of why even what you have posted cannot happen.

If we cannot even eliminate $1 billion per year wasted on paper dollar bills, then we have too many extremists in Congress. And too few people to address the real problems.

[Pete Zicato]

Originally Posted by tw

But anything you might say is not the point.

So.... You discount prima facie anything lookout might ever say? You might want to clarify your meaning.

Also you seem to have changed your argument. Earlier it seemed that you were arguing against R&D cuts. Now you seem to be saying that such cuts would not be possible. Are you changing course, or is that a pile-on?

[tw]

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

So.... You discount prima facie anything lookout might ever say? You might want to clarify your meaning.

I am trying to identify the real problem. What DanaC only calls a tangent. To step back and see why these details are not solvable, often ignored, and lost in the bickering.

We have a $trillion problem. Our Congress goes to war over a misguided, insignificant, and trivial $38 billion. And cannot even discuss eliminating the paper dollar bill. That (and not those details) are the bigger problem. And that includes a military that is twice the size of what it should be due to hype and fear.

I had a feeling that sentence would not be understood.