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To: Lane3 who wrote (63506)	5/5/2008 12:34:35 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542060

Lane3; but I would also be explicitly ashamed of passing along debt Then you surely were a Ron Paul fan as I was. There is no one who has argued against deficit spending on this board as much as I have - so this argument is way off track. You want to see debt - look at the Bush and republicans policy. Since when have we seen debt accumulation as under Reagan/Bush/Bush? Since when have we seen such oil friendly administrations? Every dime the government spends on GW is a dime not spent on reducing crime or some other cost to society. Well how simple is that then! We tax the crap out of oil and use that money on crime. Your arguments leave my head spinning trying to catch up. We're just doing some ad hoc paddling at the margins in a general direction that we think might help with a future GW problem. Yup - and that is why some of us think we ought to try to catch the train before it leaves the station. Providing of course we don't know for sure it has because we sure don't know where GW is. (I better tell you I'm kidding with you here) steve

To: Lane3 who wrote (63506)	5/5/2008 4:44:34 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542060

>>I posted something earlier about the early release of convicts. Crime is a real cost to society, too. Every dime the government spends on GW is a dime not spent on reducing crime or some other cost to society. So you're trading off assault and battery or illiteracy or something else for asthma relief.<< Karen - The article you posted about the early release of convicts made it clear that only those convicted of non-violent, non-sexual crimes would be released. So it doesn't appear to me like there is some tradeoff concerning the safety of children there. I think you would agree that spending tax money keeping minor drug offenders in prison is not beneficial to anyone, really. - Allen