[speaker001:] well I don't know if there's gonna be a solutions to the US budget
[speaker002:] well I know it's in pretty disastrous shape for sure
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] it's only getting worse exponentially it seems um
[speaker001:] yes exactly there's uh maybe some short term things that they can do and it hurts everybody's pocket of course but um I know that state has uh cutback uh raises for a year to help uh the uh state financial or whatever you might want to say to get better in a better condition that
[speaker002:] um-hum oh which state is that
[speaker001:] uh state of Minnesota
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] so there's the potential that perhaps you know the US budget might wanna take a look at it's uh federal employees or and take a look at saying well let's freeze wages I mean everybody's doing it so it isn't like uh private business has had to do it so it might have to be something that they might consider doing as a shirt that's got to be very short term
[speaker002:] um-hum right right
[speaker001:] and and the only other avenue that I can think of is um looking at where they're spending the money and not so much as saying well we're spending too much in that area as perhaps looking at what is costing them the moneys uh
[speaker002:] yep
[speaker001:] for for instance I think you probably remember the military getting caught um with toilet seats that cost them four hundred five hundred dollars
[speaker002:] right
[speaker001:] and it was just I mean you can go to Kmart and buy them for uh eight dollars or I think six dollars or whatever for toilet seats so
[speaker002:] yep yeah definitely I think that there's probably a lot of
[speaker001:] so it gives you an idea that
[speaker002:] waste in defense and in government funded research in the first place
[speaker001:] sure sure so
[speaker002:] I mean there was um people at Stanford who were soaking the government you know using millions of dollars of research money to um
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] for the President to buy beach homes or whatever it was
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and I think that that may be more widespread
[speaker001:] than we think sure
[speaker002:] than well than we'd like to think but but then
[speaker001:] sure yeah
[speaker002:] you know it's something that's hard to enforce too I'm sure
[speaker001:] um-hum it sure is the you know as far as I think there was something with the government official that went on conferences for two days and actually uh the conferences were nothing but uh you know they're getting paid for this and it was something more than just the conferences they were using it as eating out um when you think about people uh taking vacations these big government officials taking descendants in congress the rest of them taking these vacations and using the taxpayers' money for that and it's a real big crunch
[speaker002:] um-hum right
[speaker001:] uh of course when they get caught then they're you know they're guilty of course but uh during that time I'm sure there's hundreds of uh thousands of people that are um spending money that does not belong to them
[speaker002:] um-hum well that's right the I think that oh politicians talk a lot about waste but I'm not sure that that's really that much of the
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] problem I mean when you look at
[speaker001:] sure
[speaker002:] something like the Gulf War it cost us God knows
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] how much you know at a million dollars a pop for Patriot missiles
[speaker001:] exactly and I I don't think uh it's ended up being I mean it gave people jobs
[speaker002:] and yeah
[speaker001:] but I think it also cost um quite a bit as far as because after they're done with the war a lot of things were no longer put to use I mean it was kind of like okay we'll do this during this point and time but after that that's you know um they didn't wanna do it anymore
[speaker002:] right um-hum
[speaker001:] so a lot of things that they're saying that they're no longer gonna be doing for next wars that are coming up that they did for this one in getting rid of a lot of things so
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I don't know okay well it was good talking to you and have a good evening
[speaker002:] right okay all right you too bye-bye
[speaker001:] uh-huh thanks bye now