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When Congress spends trillions of the people's earnings for the military, routinely losing track of a third of or more of it, it's called national security. When they spend trillions propping up failed businesses, it's called a bail-out or a rescue.<div><br></div><div>Then talk about sending any of the federal take back for the benefit of those who pay the bill, for social benefit, and the screaming starts: </div><div><br></div><div>Socialism! Communism! Earmarks! Pork!</div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Verdana"><i>"Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible." - Milton Friedman, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">Capitalism and Freedom</span>.</i></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>On Oct 10, 2008, at 9:42 AM, Chuck Minne wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">From Science News</span></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div> </div><div class="topic content_description print">On 'Earmarks' for My Favorite Science Centers </div><div class="content_authors print">By Janet Raloff</div><div class="content_edition print">Web edition : Thursday, October 9th, 2008</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div class="content_content print"><div class="inset right inset_image"><div class="inset_text">Some Overhead Projector!</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>