<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>On Jun 29, 2017, at 9:20 AM, John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:05 AM, BillK </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:pharos@gmail.com" target="_blank">pharos@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">The US military budget is the biggest boondoggle in history.</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">But Trump thinks that </font></div><font size="4">boondoggle<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> isn't big enough and wants to spend 50 billion more than Obama did in his last </div>US military budget<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">. And the Republican Congress thinks even that isn't big enough and wants to spend 28 billion more for a even bigger </div>boondoggle<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> and Trump seems willing to go along. As I said it would have been nice if the most powerful man in the world was not a idiot.</div></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>When was the last time the military budget actually went down? And calling for even bigger increases... Well, I believe that's been done often and long before Trump. The MIC is not something new in American politics. In fact, if Trump were to seriously challenge it*, my guess is even the GOP would abandon him.</div><div><br></div><div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books via:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://author.to/DanUst</a></font></div></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><br></div><div style="line-height: normal;">* Tepid or make believe challenges are fine -- just as long as those contracts keep getting inked.</div></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"></div></div></div></div></body></html>