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To: LindyBill who wrote (16668)	11/18/2003 7:33:07 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793670

The Republicans try to find a way to make Democrats vote for giving school choice to poor kids. The Conservatives really ought to ask themselves how they ended up on the madrassa side of this issue.

To: LindyBill who wrote (16668)	11/19/2003 12:02:51 AM
From: MSI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793670

Liberals really ought to ask themselves how they ended up on the wrong side of this issue. LOL! That should be a daily mantra, for example on the tax issue, as the Dems get roped into saying they're in favor of raising taxes when in fact costs and size of gov't go up relentlessly under the GOP dramatically more than even the Dems. The size of gov't is the ultimate tax. Re: social spending, advocates of social spending would defeat the GOP if they'd say they'd finance them by finding fraud, waste, abuse, and unnecessary programs that do no one any good. The military is not the only one, but is a good example - soon to be $1/2 Trillion /year, with $2 Trillion in acknowledged "missing funds", supplying weapons useful for takeover of other countries but useless in the war on terror. That's just one secretive, wasteful department among many. I'm still a believer of the old Perot plan of going through every dept of gov't like a failed business, with outcome-based budgets. Won't happen without a citizen revolt, imo