I think the whole "under God" thing is rediculous, myself, but this reminded me of a comment I've been meaning to make to comment along the following lines since the Columbia disaster...
Jon Gabriel wrote: > 600,000+ US homeless (with 35% of them being children) > 800,000+ US AIDS sufferers > 33 million living below the poverty threshold > > ...and this is what Congress is worried about? This struck me while reading the above: my wife made a very similar point (about a different subject) to me right after the Columbia disaster: "How can we spend all that money on the space program when there's all those homeless, starving people, etc". (paraphrased) This is frustrating. I've found you can apply that argument against many, many actions the govenment does. How do you defend against people using this argument without seeming calloused, uncaring, and mean-spirited? How do I convince my wife the space program is worth the money even though people still continue to die of AIDS or be homeless, etc? -bryon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
