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To: Rambi who wrote (61960)	4/27/2008 1:08:16 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 541941

if something is hard, acknowledge that it is hard, and pay people for it as if it were work. I've had success with that in school with students- and though I am using my own money, I'd far rather use government money. After all, when we change people's habits for the better it benefits society, and as far as I can see the optimal use of communal money is to push society in ways that clearly benefit us all. It's pretty easy to see that healthier more educated people in the USA benefit us all- it's harder for me to see why our tax dollars spent in Iraq benefit us- so I'm just fine with programs that make things better here- as long as they provably do what they are supposed to do. I'm not interested in having programs around like DARE that can be proved to have zero impact. That's just stupid. Save the money and toss the program if you aren't doing any good with it. For those who didn't realize DARE was a flop: apa.org