Rick, I would not wish for any human life to be lost because of a lack of profit, or overly zealous regulation.

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Since I may not be able to print or even cut and paste from the document, I would have lost the information unless I copied it by hand.

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Additionally I find it interesting that they are saying only 1.8 Million jobs would be lost.

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It was kind of like a lottery ticket, with a long time until the ticket would be drawn, and at the worst some remainder value on my ticket if I lost.

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Why would a potential dulling of empathy necessarily be a cost, i.e. something valuable which is lost?

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"The fear, I guess, would be that every news outlet in Arkansas certainly would be hyping the fact that Gov. Huckabee lost weight on the University of Arkansas medical sciences weight-loss program, " Kern recalls.

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