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Old July 30th 03, 04:14 AM
Chris Neary
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Default Another reason economists are dorks!

He's complaining about $6.2 million being spent over a whole year to
accomodate people who want to ride their bikes as transportation when the
U.S. is spending almost $4 billion a month to occupy Iraq, more than $130
million every day, $5 million every hour.


Bingo.

One of the first things you learn in Econ 101 is about "Negative
Externalities".

Either Mr. Keating is too stupid to remember them, or too intellectually
dishonest to address them.


Chris Neary


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