<div>Maybe less recruitment for the taxpayer supported military (if not threatening national security), a lower Pentagon budget, fewer taxes, </div>
<div>thus more money left for citizens to spend and for businesses to</div>
<div>create jobs in the free market, is best. Let capitalists take over as many of the military needs of the nation as possible.</div>
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<div>Air shows such as the Blue Angles could be run by the private sector. Pilots would still be </div>
<div>trained, but less on the backs of the taxpayers. Those who want to see the Blue Angel shows can pay a fee.</div>
<div>The private sector could train and pay the pilots, and run these air shows more cheaply and efficiently, than the red tape bureaucracy </div>
<div>of the government. The shows could be contracted out with some government funding.</div>
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<div>If we truly have a national security threat needing more pilots for battle, the draft can be used. Registering is still </div>
<div>required, though currently as we know the military is voluntary. The pilots trained for the air shows could be drafted, with piloting</div>
<div>skills ready.</div>
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<div>I'm not sure such an idea would work. But why is it assumed so often that the affairs of the military must be government taxpayer </div>
<div>funded and run?</div>
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<div>The "government is wasteful and inefficient/free market does it best" argument is often used against expanding government health </div>
<div>care, the National Endowment for the Arts, Public Broadcasting System, attempts to expand regulation of or have government </div>
<div>run utilities, oil companies, vehicle manufacturing, agriculture, banks and financial institutions, etc. yet similar arguments </div>
<div>applied to the Pentagon's budget are often rejected.</div>
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<div>Former President and General Eisenhower was wise to warn about the abuses of the military/industrial complex:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y06NSBBRtY</a></div>
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<div>Ted Moffett</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/4/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kai Eiselein</b> <<a href="mailto:editor@lataheagle.com">editor@lataheagle.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">No recruiting; fewer people in the military; more people in the the public workforce; higher unemployment and lower quality people defending this country.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Yup, sounds great to me, any other bright ideas, Wayne?</font></div>
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<div style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial"><b>From:</b> <a title="bear@moscow.com" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:bear@moscow.com" target="_blank">Wayne Price</a> </div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a title="coolerfixer@roadrunner.com" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:coolerfixer@roadrunner.com" target="_blank">Mike Deleve</a> </div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Cc:</b> <a title="london@moscow.com" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:london@moscow.com" target="_blank">Bill London</a> ; <a title="editor@lataheagle.com" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:editor@lataheagle.com" target="_blank">Kai Eiselein</a> ; <a title="vision2020@moscow.com" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a> </div>
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<div>I agree with you that they are the best of the best, especially based on the amount of air-time they get. Now, I think the best of the best should be where we need them, on the front lines, not on a PR tour.</div>
<div>They're not selling war-bonds to pay for the debacles we're in.</div>
<div>And as far as recruiting goes, it's an ALL VOLUNTEER military, and we shouldn't be spending anything on recruiting.</div>
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<div>I also agree with you about the "grey haired miltary veteran piloting the Boeings that I travel on." But until the services really get their heads out of their collective bottoms, we keep loosing those folks. I worked for and was decorated by a Naval Reserve Rear Admiral that was forced into retirement at age 60, and we would have followed him to hell and back. When he left the navy because he was too old, he went back to Delta Airlines where he is the</div>
<div>command pilot / training pilot for their 767 fleet.</div>
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<div>On Aug 4, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Mike Deleve wrote:</div><br>
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<div>Well Bill, As far as the cost goes, I don't care. There is this thing called morale. It's an intangible thing, but extremely important to the Armed Services as well as the safety of our nation. I grew up in the Air Force. We all looked forward to the Thunderbirds show when the rotation of their schedule brought them to our current airbase.</div>
<div>The demonstration teams for all of the different services are "the best of the best of the best". These pilot slots are highly prized and sought after, and rightly so. As I'm sure anyone with any common sense can figure out, the training would go on without airshows, and does 24/7 for all of the branches.</div>
<div>Another aspect of the shows is for recruitment. Yes, I know, we shouldn't be recruiting anybody because the military is "evil". I disagree, particularly when it comes to pilots. I personally prefer to have a grey haired miltary veteran piloting the Boeings that I travel on.</div>
<div>The aircraft themselves cost $21 million each. I'll let you find the rest of your answers yourself.</div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2"><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.blueangels.navy.mil/" target="_blank">http://www.blueangels.navy.mil/</a></font></div>
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b><span> </span><a title="editor@lataheagle.com" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:editor@lataheagle.com" target="_blank">Kai Eiselein</a><span> </span>;<span> </span><a title="vision2020@moscow.com" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" target="_blank">vision2020@moscow.com</a></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Does anyone know the total cost of this Blue Angels show?</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">costs:</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">training for pilots</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">planes</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">maintenence</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">At a time when real social services are cut, why is the US spending money for this show?</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">I bring to you...the "Blue Angels"</font></div>
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