In a message dated 5/25/2005 5:50:26 PM Central Daylight Time, cabrian@xxxxxxxxx writes: of centralized federal power that usurped state sovereignty. Hi, Kind of makes one think of No Child Left Behind ... or how perhaps I would prefer to have even my defense tax dollars spent on original research and not on taking care of the cronyism of the industrial-military complex...though it was only through that which caused one of the companies that one of my siblings works at to get a piece of the Iraqi pie (instead of Halliburton...that company had our president's uncle on the board [who has since cashed in much of his stock as it skyrocked upward...]) It is, though, just another form of social welfare...kind of like building roads and such. (which would, however, benefit more of those of us isolationists...) Best, Marlena in Missouri ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html