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pmbryant

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Tue Jan-06-04 05:06 PM
Response to Reply #10

17. You're off by a few decimal points

Edited on Tue Jan-06-04 05:12 PM by pmbryant

Come on, $800,000,000,000 for a couple of Mars probes?

The Mars probes cost $800 Million dollars, as I recall, not $800 Billion dollars, as you state in your post.

As if the GOP, who controls the purse strings, would even choose to divert the money to No Child Left Behind or VA hospitals if given the option.

So this is a false choice.

The choice is between tax cuts for the super-rich (how many Trillions by now?!?) and funding worthwhile programs. You could build and launch, literally, tens of thousands of Mars probes for the cost of Bush's tax giveaways. And that isn't even mentioning all the hundreds of billions spent every year on our grotesque, unauditable Defense budget.

--Peter

EDIT: Got rid of some capitalizations that were distracting

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