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Fourth, the Democratic Party has shown a somewhat more realistic understanding of our defense requirements than the other party. The waste in defense spending in the last eight years has been astronomical — $600 toilet seats, $300 hammers and so on. A recent headline said that it would cost more than $1 billion to fix deficiencies in the B-l bomber. All the welfare expenditures from the beginning of time and in all civilizations would not even come close to the total military expenditures during the past eight years.
I am persuaded that the Democratic Party, if successful in the coming election, would eliminate unnecessary weapons systems and would concentrate spending on conventional armaments that would suffice to maintain an appropriate military posture in the world. As for Star Wars, the chief boondoggle of the other party, the prevailing view of responsible scientists is that it can
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