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Originally Posted by boink
well, I'd shure as hell pay a bill for studying tree frogs and some welfare to keep people from living in the woods along side the freeway before I'd pay for a trumped up fake reason to go to war that's cost a million civilian deaths.
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Boink, I second your opinion. As to research like the tree frogs, folks wouldn't
believe the amount of practical knowledge that has been spun off from "pure"
research.
Look at the space program, for instance.
Two of the reasons Canada is having a much easier time so far during this financial
crisis is that our previous gov't DID pay down massive parts of our debt, and we
had better banking regulation.
What we need to do is
not vote for those who speak in soundbites, those whose
decisions are made by polls, but rather long term solutions.
So yeah, I'd pay my part, I'd just want to know where it went.