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Er, excuse me, but "the government" doesn't have jack **** - it's like 15
year
old kid whose parents have money - they can either spoil the kid by
constantly
handing them money to **** away or teach them some responsibility...and
it'll
sometimes require "tough love"...

then again, there is that matter of collective good that you mentioned
earlier, and having a sudden stoppage of purchasing on a huge scale, without
some transition plan is not in the collective good.
Tom