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To: Road Walker who wrote (278644)	3/6/2006 9:55:58 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572016

Thanks, Meathead "The latest Census Bureau data indicate that in 2005, 239,416 more native-born Americans left [California] than moved in. ... The outmigration is such that the cost to rent a U-Haul trailer to move from Los Angeles to Boise, Idaho, is $2,090 -- or some eight times more than the cost of moving in the opposite direction. "What's gone wrong? A big part of the story is a tax and regulatory culture that treats the most productive businesses and workers as if they were ATMs. ... "And things may soon get worse, thanks to Rob Reiner, who played the liberal 'Meathead' on the 'All in the Family' sitcom in the 1970s and now plays the same part in real life. He and his rich Hollywood friends have put an initiative on the state's June ballot that would add a 1.7-percentage-point income-tax surcharge on 'millionaires' with income over $400,000, with the proceeds earmarked for universal pre-school. ... "All of this has contributed to the trend of wealthy taxpayers disappearing from the state." -- From "Meathead Economics," a Feb. 28 editorial in the Wall Street Journal

To: Road Walker who wrote (278644)	3/6/2006 10:42:11 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572016

Iraq would be like WWII: If Hitler had invaded the Sudatenland, and been driven back by a true international coalition. Lived under extreme invasive sanctions and monitoring for 10 years, only to be invaded by the Untied States and Britain practically alone on the thinnest of pretexts, fueled by manipulated fear and anger against something he had no part in, after having his military destroyed 10 years earlier.

To: Road Walker who wrote (278644)	3/6/2006 12:29:38 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572016

JF, If you can't see the difference between WW2 and the "war on terror" in Iraq then there isn't much to debate. Lots of differences, but lots of similarities as well. Should we wait until the Islamic fundamentalists gain as much power as the Third Reich once did? Or maybe that will never happen, given the way the world is today? A case can be made for either side of that argument. Tenchusatsu