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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (362047)	12/10/2007 1:10:45 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1596688

"How did NJ end up spending a lot of money anyway?" Sorry if it wasn't clear. The state tried to ramrod their decision instead of addressing concerns. That alienated their constituency and turned the situation into a political crisis. When votes started to be put on the line, the politicians caved. So they wound up having to pay for a clean up. It is a whole lot better to have a few people bouncing around in moonsuits at the beginning as an assessment than have hundreds of them doing the same for weeks doing an actual cleanup. If you have even been inside one, you'd understand. "And how does the mortgage crisis relate to medical waste washing ashore on the East Coast?" The particulars, of course, are different. However, the topic under discussion was a decision to do nothing. In general, when something is considered a crisis, most people feel something should be done to avert it. People are strange that way. However, sometimes there is no good solution, so nothing should be done. So, if that is the desirable course of action, then it needs to be demonstrated why nothing should be done. Given that we are still, maybe, a democracy, the president is accountable. He is not so much the Decider and the Convincer.