On 11 Jul 2005 15:09:36 -0700, jim rozen wrote:
In article , Dave Hinz says...

It just frosts my cake when I see folks here complain bitterly
about how their school taxes are used to teach the demon
evolution,

Don't ascribe arguments to me that I haven't made. It's a cheap tactic.

The comment was *not* attributed to you. I think that was
pretty clear when I said "folks" and not "you." To be
perfectly clear, I am aware that you personally would not
and have to teh beset of my knowledge, made such a comment
here.

Uh huh, but you just happened to bring it up while replying to my
points. Got it.

but they'll write a blank check for a few billion
a year for a war that seems to do nothing more than encourage
terrorism on a gobal level.

So, you contend that it has escalated then, do you?

John's number was what, $5B per month of your tax money, yes?
Escalation or not, that's still a hunk-O-change. What would
*you* like to see money like that spend on?

Well, you act like that money evaporates. Doesn't it, you know, get
spent to make things, employ people who spend, that sort of thing?
It's like people bitching about space program spending. Where better to
spend money than in the high-tech sector, where you get interesting
research, products, and so on?