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From: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Re: A new call for ignorance
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Date: Wed, 24-Sep-86 12:59:56 EDT
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Reply-To: ronc@fai.UUCP (Ronald O. Christian)
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I may be ignorant myself, but I can't reconcile two figures
that have been bandied around in this newsgroup:

1)	Drugs claim about 500 lives a year.

2)	The US government wants to spend (is spending?) 2 to 3
	billion dollars a year to combat the problem.

If this is true, doesn't anyone think this money could be better
spent?  Just an idea.


			Ron
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		Ronald O. Christian (Fujitsu America Inc., San Jose, Calif.)
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