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Change is slow

(Written May 6, 2008)
The end of the Cold War. Germans dancing on the Berlin wall. The United States breathes a sigh of relief; The great Communist empire has fallen, now we’ve only Cuba left to deal with. How hard can it be, after all, to starve a small island nation into submission? [...]

It costs $42 billion to arrest potheads…?

… the problem is, of course, that if we stopped making these arrests (like Canada and Amsterdam?), the gov’t would just throw that $42billion right into the War on Terror(ism). Maybe this is a better use of our resources … (hah)
See article from Forbes.com here: Marijuana’s $42 Billion Question
The U.S. marijuana is a $113 [...]

“U.S. debt stood at about $5.6 trillion at the start of Bush’s presidency…”

A Reuters article about the U.S. Senate raising our credit limit.
Does this seem incredibly shortsighted to anyone else? It’s like my Dad says, I suppose: “I don’t know a lot about economics, but I know that eventually, someone has to pay for this”…
UPDATE 1-U.S. Senate agrees to raise U.S. credit limit
Thu Sep 27, 2007 [...]

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