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This Archive is read only, but you can bring questions to the actrive forum area, of course. I think it is very hard from a distance to offer too much that will be real relevant to your specific situation. If you stay in, you lose your principles. If you are right that leaving and staying both have such horrible implications, usually the best solution when offered two miserable choices is to not choose either but to somehow come up with some other option. Certainly each group must have aspects of the budget that it doesn't like.