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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Friday, May 20, 2005

I am the luckiest man alive

According to this Army recruiter anyway:
Dayton area alone, which is about four or five counties, Dayton area alone, 1,500 people died in two weeks. You know what that was from? Car wrecks. Those numbers that we get, we get from the actual highway patrol. So, I mean, all that stuff's factual. So, you look at that way. We've lost 1,500 soldiers so far over in Iraq. We've been over there for three years. If you add it together, 1,500 people died in five counties alone within two weeks, just from car wrecks.

At that pace, in the two years I drove in Dayton, Ohio, 36,000 people died on the streets around me. In three years, the entire population of the city will be wiped out from car accidents.

I think that's the real story here - the dizzying pace of auto fatalities and it's impact on the city of Dayton in three years. Instead, the media chooses to focus on the fact that army recruiters are lying to kids so they'll enlist and fight in Iraq. How predictable.