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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (531857)11/23/2009 8:34:49 PM
From: combjelly   of 1575154
 
"of course any bill of such magnitude will have its pet projects in it"

That was by design. The emphasis was on "shovel ready" projects. How else were they going to be funded except by earmarks?

This is the sort of thing that happens when i-node and his ilk start playing fast and loose with definitions, facts and events. Even they get confused over what they are arguing about...
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