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Old 10-23-2007, 05:30 AM
Sciolist Sciolist is offline
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Default Re: How do Americans view Europeans?

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Being pro-gigantic unnecessary military is internally inconsistent with a belief in small government.

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I think it depends how you look at it. The gigantic military is probably helping the economy, which is generally what people want who want small government. This is because the R&D budget is effectively an enormous government subsidy of the electronics and manufacturing industries
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