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A good place to start pruning govt. spending is in the Defense
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certainly want smaller government, much much much smaller, zero would be
perfect, but pruning the Defense sector is the very last place I’d look to
achieve that goal. The reason I say this is because generating an army is the
most difficult challenge facing radical libertarian free marketers like me. I
am certainly not saying it’s imposable, but it is difficult, I expect it will
be the very last government function to be replaced by the more efficient
market; so don’t be so anxious to dump the Defense department just yet, there
is a huge amount of government junk and gunk and nonsense that deserves
oblivion before defense.<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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