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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (231053)	4/28/2005 9:10:24 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1571929

Step up to the plate ABB... Nobody wanted to go to Iraq, does anyone want to go to North Korea? news.yahoo.com "The assessment is that they have the capability to do that, yes, ma'am." Now, is it a Karl Rove game or is it Memorex? I'm glad I don't live in Washington state.....

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (231053)	4/28/2005 9:21:53 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1571929

re: Social Security and Medicare are going to cost orders of magnitude more than Iraq, with many, many more lives at stake. You are willing to project SS and Medicare costs but not military costs. Why do you love military spending and want to cut spending on your fellow citizens? re: I remember you referring to Social Security as the only "bright spot" in our federal budget. It's running a surplus, are you brain dead? It's the mask for your guys over the top spending. John

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (231053)	4/29/2005 1:21:54 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571929

JF, Bottom line is we have to pay the bills. What for? We've got the strongest economy in the world, so why not mortgage some of it just to prop up the politicians today? (sarcasm) By the way, here in Kah-lee-fornia, the public employee unions are running very ugly smear ads against Ah-nuld because he wants to reform the public employee pension system. Our governor has stated time and time again that the state doesn't have a revenue problem, but an expense problem, yet the unions aren't giving up what they gained under Gray Davis without a fight. The unions may be part of the problem in CA but they are not the biggest problem. Prop. 13 was a costly give away. There is no way the state can maintain its huge infrastructure on the amount of property taxes its residential base is generating. And I've heard all the arguments that Prop. 13 has generated a lot of growth. Personally, I think most of that growth would have happened with or without Prop. 13. Corruption is another important factor. Everywhere in CA someone has their hand out for 'a payback'.........these paybacks really make doing business in CA costly. In addition, CA is paying the price of all the cheap labor its gets from illegal immigration. Illegal immigration has contributed to many problems such as the gangs, the crowded infrastructure, the crime etc. requiring more police enforcement, social services and costly infrastructure improvements. Finally, there is a me-first attitude in CA that results from all the mismanagement and problems. People only care about themselves. That makes getting anything done just that more difficult. As I said, its really easy to blame CA's financial problems on the unions but I suspect they are not the major culprit by any stretch of the imagination. ted