Not sure how Grenada went down as that was a little before my Army time, but Panama was a pretty long term engagement. When I was deployed there in September 1989, we were replacing one of our sister units that had been there for 6 months and my unit was there until December, after combat ops ceased. I guess not long term compared to Iraq and Afghanistan, but long term for the forays we had in the 80's.
Eric -----Original Message----- From: Maureen [mailto:mamamaur...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 23:49 To: cf-community Subject: Re: So Ryan's Budget Proposal ... What was it under Clinton and Bush I? No wars under Reagan. A couple of excursions into Grenada and Panama, but no real wars. End the wars, you can get it down very quickly. It's just so easy to blame it on Social Security, which is not and has never been an entitlement. Just sayin'. On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > First off, I really applaud the guy for making a sincere effort, no > matter what you may think about how he gets the job done (which, btw, > is 25 years away in his plan). > > That said, I've been looking for a way to greatly simplify this whole > debate and with some quick math and good ole Google (fact-check away), > here's what I came up with: > > The question is, what do we think the administrative overhead of the > US gov't should be? i.e., what size? > > * Under Reagan it was about 22% of GDP > > * Under Obama's recommendation (can't call it a budget yet) is about > 24% > > * Under Ryan it's 20% > > The big variable here is, of course, the baby boomers. Under Reagan > we didn't have the boomers on social security, Medicare, and Medicaid > (80% of healthcare cost is at end-of-life). > > So just thumb-nailing it out, it doesn't seem like there's any way in > hell we can get by at 20% (unless we're willing to massively limit > entitlements). > > Just sayi ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:336170 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
