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       Insanity Prevails
       By: Jeepers Date: July 24, 2014, 12:49 pm
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       This is crazy. Your thoughts?
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       Re: Insanity Prevails
       By: FTB41 Date: July 24, 2014, 2:28 pm
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       Not as crazy as it sounds.  It seems especially helpful for
       teaching autistic children basic social skills.
       10 million over a span of 5 years might seem like a lot of
       money, but for a study of this scope its really not
       unreasonable.
       Compared to the $50 million wasted by the house GOP in
       meaningless Obamacare repeal votes and the 10 million per month
       wasted by Rick Perry's border posturing, its chump change (and
       at least someone is helped by it).
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       Re: Insanity Prevails
       By: Snickers Date: July 24, 2014, 4:11 pm
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       [quote author=FTB41 link=topic=1142.msg14615#msg14615
       date=1406230097]
       Not as crazy as it sounds.  It seems especially helpful for
       teaching autistic children basic social skills.
       10 million over a span of 5 years might seem like a lot of
       money, but for a study of this scope its really not
       unreasonable.
       Compared to the $50 million wasted by the house GOP in
       meaningless Obamacare repeal votes and the 10 million per month
       wasted by Rick Perry's border posturing, its chump change (and
       at least someone is helped by it).
       [/quote]
       ::)....... rolling eye balls.
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       Re: Insanity Prevails
       By: trollslayer Date: July 24, 2014, 7:01 pm
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       [quote author=FTB41 link=topic=1142.msg14615#msg14615
       date=1406230097]
       Compared to the $50 million wasted by the house GOP in
       meaningless Obamacare repeal votes and the 10 million per month
       wasted by Rick Perry's border posturing, its chump change (and
       at least someone is helped by it).
       [/quote]
       Securing the border is "border posturing"?  Another liberal
       talking point.   Pull your head out of Obama's ass for a change
       and look at reality.  These illegal alien children are costing
       us $ 50,000 a head at this point if the legislation goes
       through.  Don't you think spending that money on our own would
       be better than spending it on others?  We can't even spend that
       money on our own vets.  Stop spitting out liberal talking points
       and think for yourself for a change.
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       Re: Insanity Prevails
       By: rapids_60 Date: July 24, 2014, 9:20 pm
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       [quote author=trollslayer link=topic=1142.msg14620#msg14620
       date=1406246492]
       Don't you think spending that money on our own would be better
       than spending it on others?
       [/quote]
       Straw man.  It wouldn't be spent on our own people regardless.
       And yeah, all Perry is doing is posturing.  The illegals will
       just change route.  You have to secure the ENTIRE border to be
       effective, not just a few miles of it.
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       Re: Insanity Prevails
       By: trollslayer Date: July 24, 2014, 9:32 pm
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       [quote author=rapids_60 link=topic=1142.msg14628#msg14628
       date=1406254830]
       Straw man.  It wouldn't be spent on our own people regardless.
       And yeah, all Perry is doing is posturing.  The illegals will
       just change route.  You have to secure the ENTIRE border to be
       effective, not just a few miles of it.
       [/quote]  I've never heard of the strawman question before.
       That seems to be a new one.
       If we aren't spending it on legal protection, housing and
       feeding illegals, where do you think it would go?
       They will have to change the route several hundred miles.  The
       Texas border is immensely more than "a few miles"   If you don't
       think this we be any kind of deterrent that's fine. I'd like to
       think you have enough common sense to know better.  Look at the
       results the last time they did this.
       Maybe you can answer the question I know F will run from.  What
       harm will come from adding more boots to the ground at our
       border?  It needs to be done, Obama won't do it.  What we had
       there in the past has been redirected to babysit leaving our
       border even more porous.
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