RE: LMT article dtd 3 Aug 98

["Cooper, Maj Philip S. CCJ1" <cooperps@centcom.mil>]

Right, and without a strong defense for our country you can kiss all you
listed below goodbye!  We lead the way and must continue to do so.

Phil Cooper

	-----Original Message-----
	From:	Robert Hoffmann [SMTP:escape@alt-escape.com]
	Sent:	August 05,1998 12:45
	To:	vision2020@moscow.com
	Subject:	Re: LMT article dtd 3 Aug 98

	At 08:38 AM 8/5/98 -0700, you wrote:
	>
	>I find this rhetoric troubling.  We "employers" are not willing
to pay
	>public school teachers a decent wage but nonetheless expect
them to
	>continue to school themselves, be creative, etc. etc. etc.  The
fact that
	>some people continue to do so far beyond anything reasonable is
amazing.
	>The fact that only a few day is completely understandable.
	>
	>Dale Goble
	>
	Let's turn over 90% of the defense budget (or more accurately,
the Budget
	for Foreign Military Intervention) to domestic purposes, and I
bet we could
	raise the education level in the U.S. to that of a First World
Nation.  Of
	course, we could simultaneously provide universal health care,
	comprehensive unemployment benefits & job retraining, major
environmental
	initiatives, desperately needed infrastructure investment, youth
programs,
	care for the elderly & handicapped, and other things that our
government
	doesn't define as worthy to "defend."

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