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Old 09-21-2010, 10:25 AM   #46
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What would be awesome is if we could pay our annual taxes and earmark where we are willing to spend the $. That way anyone who didn't want to pay for politician's lifetime pensions for serving a single term could leave that box unchecked. Don't want to fund artists who fling poo? Leave it unchecked. Ocotmoms? No thanks, etc.

It would be very interesting where people decide to spend their money.
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Old 09-21-2010, 10:56 AM   #47
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I suspect after the first go-around the IRS would have to hold a bake sale to buy themselves office supplies...
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Old 09-21-2010, 11:04 AM   #48
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Everybody would fund their own pet projects, and the infrastructure would fall apart. And then suddenly everyone would be like, "hey, how come the bridges are falling down?"
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Old 09-21-2010, 11:19 AM   #49
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You could make birth control a requirement of public assistance.
Clean pee should be required before birth control. Both would be great.
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Old 09-21-2010, 11:23 AM   #50
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I'd support both.
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Old 09-21-2010, 12:05 PM   #51
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Maybe she and the doc can share a cell.
Did she do something illegal?

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Kill her, "Three Generations of idiots is enough"- US Supreme Court
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As the chart says it is from the 2007 period of spending. If they redid the chart for 2010 it would show that the deficit has tripled since Obama came to office and the amount of money spent in all the years of the wars from 2001 to present did not add up to the deficit since Obama took over.
Bullshit
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Old 09-21-2010, 12:10 PM   #52
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Clean pee?
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Old 09-21-2010, 12:14 PM   #53
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Obama's budget includes war spending, so for PR purposes it looks worse, but it's more honest.
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Old 09-21-2010, 12:22 PM   #54
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Clean pee?
No junkies.
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Old 09-21-2010, 01:04 PM   #55
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Everybody would fund their own pet projects, and the infrastructure would fall apart. And then suddenly everyone would be like, "hey, how come the bridges are falling down?"
Sounds like a city not very far from me.....

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Old 09-21-2010, 01:06 PM   #56
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Sounds like a city not far from everybody.
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Old 09-21-2010, 01:15 PM   #57
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Old 09-21-2010, 01:16 PM   #58
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Sewer and gas lines are going the route of bridges now too.
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Old 09-21-2010, 02:10 PM   #59
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Old 09-21-2010, 02:29 PM   #60
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In France, when you want to adopt a child, there are investigations to verify that you can really support the child. They are extensive and a real pain in the ass for the future parents.

I would assume that with assisted procreation, it should be the same.
Whether it should be or not, I bet it's not. I doubt there's any governmental checks into the parental suitability of a fertility patient. A doctor might refuse (and this one should have), but I doubt they have an obligation to, except in remarkably obvious situations (like this one).
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