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To: Lane3 who wrote (79896)8/23/2008 3:09:55 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 543044
 
There are disasters and then there are DISASTERS. Simple risk assessment.

If you reduce the analysis to an extreme and simplistic dichotomy, yes, you get a very simple answer. It's useless in evaluating a broad set of national priorities, but that is beside the point with your fundamental rule of inaction.

What disappoints me is all the people who won't vote based on even your simple "risk assessment", rather they will vote based on a hazy emotional picture that the spinmeisters stuck in their head.

And then they will actually expect results. Silly people.



To: Lane3 who wrote (79896)8/23/2008 9:59:54 PM
From: biotech_bull  Respond to of 543044
 
There are disasters and then there are DISASTERS

I read DISASTER in all caps and the first image that popped in my head was Katrina :(
Inaction is not always preferable and infrastructure is not just a couple of bridges.


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