Reducing the national debt by going through security checks...

[question everything]

miscelLAny: If you're one of those airline passengers who dumps his change into the tray at the security checkpoint and then doesn't bother to retrieve the pennies, you're helping to reduce the national debt. Little by little.

"A penny here, a nickel there — it mounts up," said Nico Melendez of the Transportation Security Administration.

In the first four months of this year, for example, passengers left behind $708.45 in loose change at John Wayne Airport.

It was handed over to the Treasury Department, which regrets that it can't send out thank-you notes.

From http://www.latimes.com/news/local/state/la-me-only2jun02,1,4200213.column?coll=la-news-state

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[bryant69]

1. Oh thank goodness

Here I was worrying about an insane fiscal policy designed to empty the coffers while we are fighting a war. But now I see that my concerns were all in vain. Thank you mainstream media for soothing my concerns.

Bryant
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[unhappycamper]

2. My contribution to reducing the national debt is removing repubs

from any and all elected offices.