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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: TimF who wrote (457637)2/19/2009 7:18:13 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) of 1576882
 
if there was a good but not conclusive evidence that there might be a terrorist attack in the US would you question expensive counter-measures? In both cases you can't wait for 100% proof because that 100% proof is the devastation.
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A problem with that analogy is that we don't that a stimulus bill can increase economic problems, while defenses against terrorism are rather unlikely to make a terrorist attack much more successful.

Your VERY minority opinion, stated as fact.
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