you're an emergency highway wrecker clean up crew and you have a problem with one of your trucks (equipment) you use to clear the highways of wrecked 18 wheelers and it breaks down. You don't ignore the problem and just throw the truck away and pray the rest of your trucks can handle the load. You spend the money to fix it to keep your company profitable. You can't just cut/throw away -everything- and put a huge strain on the middle class completely crumpling it into the poor house to "fix" the multitude of problems facing Americans. The GOP's platform would do just that. Cut -everything- in sight that it deems unnecessary to save America. GOP: fixing America by crushing Americans. That's their platform quite to the point. If you can't see that then get a magnifying glass out and go read the fine print kiddies. TerryOtt Sometimes, Jason, it takes LESS money being spent for "problems to be fixed", an observation from my 70 years. Spending money you don't have and have no prospects for getting, or spending that is misdirected, is fairly likely to make any problem worse. That's something conservatives seem to recognize more than liberals do. ttp://twitter.com/#!/thehiredmind Hired Mind If they didn't have fore-knowledge of unrest in the area, then why did they issue an apology for the supposedly-offending video BEFORE the attack took place? When the head of an organization doesn't seem to care, then the people working under him will begin not to care.