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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
see again, shortsighted. I didn't limit it to RAPEKITS. but you read what you want and then interepret it as you see fit without the rest of the words surround it.
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You want to know who pays for things. That's it, right? The problem is that you've manage to take a possibly interesting question and brought it up in a context that not only renders it completely uninteresting, but managed to do so in a way that makes you look like you think that a significant portion of rape kits are wasted on liars.
I understand what you're saying, I just fail to see why you find it even remotely interesting in this context. You want to know who is going to pay for it and our collective response is "it should be the police department, because that is their role." It isn't that difficult. You're asking a question as if the majority of people don't already have an answer for it, and then you're acting like it's somehow insightful.
Clearly, when times are tough, tough financial decisions need to be made. Were times tough when Palin was mayor of Wasilla? I think a brand new sports complex would say no. So what's your point? That tough times in general call for tough financial decisions? Does anyone disagree with that?
I also understand that you said something that made it seem like you felt that there were enough instances of false rape accusations that perhaps rape victims should have to pay for their rape kits.
I think you said something ill-advised and now are so desperately trying to make this discussion about something else entirely. i.e. "It's not that I think that a lot of rape victims are liars, it's that I'm innocently curious about the mundane financial decision making processes of local government." Whatever.
This "fiscal responsibility" tack is bullshit. You aren't the only one who is aware of the fact that money is exchanged for goods and service. It's not a very revelatory point. That you seem to think it is beyond anyone here is silly.
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I get it. You, rb, and dc aren't interested in how the fiscal operations work. It's just a GIVEN that it should be collected and spent.
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Nope. You actually don't get it, and you actually seem to be very good at not getting it. It's that questions of the inner working of fiscal operations is unimportant in the context of anything anyone in here is saying, with the exception of you.
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right, they don't adhere to ANY accounting philosophies or responsibility, which is why the feds have huge deficit spending, state and local governments have shortfalls to FY09 budgets calling for further expenditure cutss, personal credit has topped out, home equity was used as an ATM, am I missing something where money hasn't been squeezed out?
but I've been saying all this time,"someone needs to pay for the rapekits... it's raaaape... rapekits... need to pay for them!" 
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