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May 07 16:39 UTC

Dean wrote:
The St. Paul taxpayers are gladly spending $600 + million to keep the
war over there.

Took me a bit to realize this was not a joke.
So many of the responses I would like to note do not involved St. Paul,
so rather than dissecting the absurdity of the nation's current
strategies involving international security, I will focus on St. Paul.

If you accept the premise that we, in St. Paul, are in imminent danger
to terrorist attacks (to predict a Cheney speech in 3 months: St. Paul
will be blown up if any Democrats are elected to office), then we should
be preparing by investing heavily in first responder training and
readiness as well as ensuring our hospitals are ready for a massive
influx of patients.

Unfortunately, the city is struggling to maintain our first responder
readiness in the face of cuts to LGA.

Sadly, I suspect, the money we have let leave our city to send American
troops to die in a civil war we created in a region that was not
supporting the terrorists that gunned for us, has left us considerably
more vulnerable to the many more terrorists we created through our
moronic international policies.

Regardless of whether St. Paul is attacked or not, investing in first
responders is a good strategy because of the ancillary benefits we get
from fast responses to fire and medical emergencies as well.  Even if
the terrorists never target us, natural disasters may - and being
prepared for any disaster offers more bang for the buck than a Yee-haw
foreign policy conducted by fools better at winning elections than
governing.

Christopher Mitchell

Dean Sheldon wrote:
> Mr. Hine you seem to have forgotten that we are at war with people who want
to KILL each and every one of us. And they are willing to die in the process!
>
> The St. Paul taxpayers are gladly spending $600 + million to keep the war
over there. We have seen that when the war is on our soil downtown New York
City was decimated, the Pentagon building was nearly destroyed, and 3000+
people were murdered. And that was in just one day.
>
> Do you want that in downtown St. Paul? Imagine if the Excel Center was filled
with a deadly gas on a hockey night, or a jumbo jet flew into the Capital
building while the legislature was in session, or a propane truck was ruptured
then blown up in the middle of 7th Street at noon and a half dozen city blocks
of buildings and people were gone.
>
> All of the things you listed would be the absolute last spending priorities
on our minds.
>
> Dean Sheldon
>
> Dean Sheldon
> St. Anthony Park, St. Paul
> Info about Dean Sheldon: http://forums.e-democracy.org/p/deansheldon
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