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Originally Posted by zemlin
If it IS about oil, how much would 250 Billion to subsidize mass transit nationwide have gone to reduce oil consumption.
or towards education
or towards further development of alternate fuels
or towards medicaid
or towards more rigirous investigation into
the root causes of terrorism with some
bifurcated focus on real progress in that area
or at the very least securing the future of the veterans themselves.............
if there was a way that you could nationalize the defense industry, cut
some of the fat out, give individual people lots of money if they're particularly
crafty at either thinking up ways of killing or defending people .............
you could create enormous revenues for public works..........
people would be shot before any idea close to this would be implemented.............
in a way i think mccain's crusade for real campaign finance reform was the
only ray of light i've seen in that area - its such a shame he went onboard with
our president last summer ...........him and outkast.............
be well
maybe the aliens are coming
- jack