[Southack]

"Though your list is somewhat more attractive, I prefer Sir Gawain's emphasis on facts."

Facts?!

Here's a tidbit of what Sir Gawain listed as "facts":

"SOCIALIST WELFARE PROGRAMS & POLITICAL BOONDOGGLES

• [source] Continued anti-trust lawsuit against Microsoft.
• [source] $10 billion military reserve fund for the Pentagon.
• [source] $28.9 billion "anti-terror" package. (As if the federal government didn't already spend enough on defense)
• [source] Proposed increasing defense spending to $378.5 billion next fiscal year from the $364.1 billion appropriated by Congress for fiscal 2003.
• [source] $11 billion over the next 3 years to build up war capability in S. Korea.
• [source] $8 million for firearms training for commercial pilots.
• [source] U.S. government purchased data on Mexico’s 65 million registered Voters.
• [source] $37.5 million in federal funds to Georgia for "homeland security."
• [source] $100 million to help states run their smallpox vaccination programs.
• [source] $800,000 to $1 million for the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to make circles in the ocean while George W. Bush aboard.
• [source] $1 billion a year to fund 75,000 new firefighters over seven years via the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response Act (or SAFER, isn't that cute?).
• [source] ... $600,000 for RIPTA facilities security upgrades...
• [source] $95 million to spy on Americans for the government's Total Information Awareness database.
• [source] $21 billion deal with Boeing to lease one-hundred 767 tankers...
• [source] $500 million to build ballistic missile interceptors in Alaska."

[Southack]

#103 was also meant for you.

[Nephi]

Very nice. Even Sir Gawain's facts are more attractive when you re-post(without refuting them).

[GigaDittos]

The Government is not continuing the Microsoft lawsuit (your source)
Sources 2 & 3 are dead
Something wrong will spending money on troop in S. Korea?
You expect pilots to carry firearms without training?
Info on Mexican voter's (and the problem is?)
Georgia Homeland Security (Is this unusual?)
Smallpox programs (Is this not within the Federal charter?)
How much does a presidential trip usually cost? Are we spoiling out troops too much?
SAFER funding (Should the Government not fulfill its obligation?)
Total Information Awareness (I think that's been addressed in our favor)
Should we buy the Boeing tankers instead?
Alaska is a good place for defense protection (Got a problems with that?)