From: phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu
Date: Wed Jan 20 1999 - 19:06:17 MST
"Alexander 'Sasha' Chislenko" <sasha1@netcom.com> wrote:
> I find it difficult to count how much of value that could be going to
> interesting project, is taken away, or supported, by the military.
The military supports a lot of research, much not immediately related to
weapons development. Particularly math, computing, and physics research.
Galbraith bemoaned the fact that all private production is considered good and
all public production a burden, even when comparing rent-a-cops and schools.
Except that military expenditures are often exempt from the stigma of other
gov't expenses, so a lot of research (which he would like more of, and
non-military) survives under the military umbrella, where it might not
otherwise.
-xx- Damien Raphael Sullivan X-)
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