>> When you look at the trillions spent on poverty over the last 4 decades, and then examine the outcomes, clearly the money wasn't spent wisely.
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>As I've said before, I'm amazed at the selective indignation about government waste I hear from my conservative friends.
>Do you want to talk about wasting billions on asinine projects?
>Try this for size:
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>http://historytogo.utah.gov/utah_chapters/utah_today/themxmissileproject.html
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>The utter insanity of this thing still leaves me speechless, and they had PhD's from MIT working on this nonsense.
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>More recently, the couple of trillion blown while slaughtering hundreds of thousands in Afghanistan and Iraq would seem to merit mention with some free lunches given out needlessly in inner cities.

Didn't Obama call Afghanistan the "good" war? :)

Remember, I'm not a conservative.