I share Buffett's concern, and hope, for starters, that the cost-reductions inherent in the Obama health-care reform plan are rapidly implemented, instead of producing more wing-nut caterwauling and falsification of reality. Secondly, I would appreciate seeing a sharp streamlining and targeted efficiency-improvement of our defense budget such that we end up doing what we actually need to do, not doing what we do not need to do, and paying only for what we intend to get. The amount of fat layered into even a small defense contract of any purpose these days is astonishing.


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