Ya know, I used to be mind-boggled when budgets were announced that soared into the high millions of dollars.

I can't even conceive, really, of something costing a billion.

And as for 80 Billion just reduce a country to rubble -- hell, I'd be willing to do that for a couple of million, as long as they weren't shooting back!! I guess there's hazard pay involved, huh?

Seriously, though, seems to me we need to get that money back, and use it for more productive purposes.

I believe without real grounds that spending ten -- or maybe 100 -- million on R&D -- if it were done by the right people -- could completely end the dependency on oil. So how come we're spending a thousand times that on roughhousing for oil?

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