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Originally Posted by oldpotatoe
DOD budget is like a huge dinosaur which is getting harder and harder to ‘feed’, but you are right, point out the obscenity of the present DOD budget and get labeled ‘unamerican’ at best, ‘traitor’ at worst. Complete BS.
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How times have changed. In WWII, Harry Truman first rose to prominence in the Senate as a fiscal watchdog. His committee examined and publicized waste in wartime spending. Truman was lauded as a protector of the taxpayers' money. As a result, he was asked to be Roosevelt's running mate in 1944. The rest is history...
Greg