Perhaps they will never tell us where the knife will fall -- but you can be sure that with cuts this deep, there is no secret plan or formula that will be able to protect the investments we need to help our economy grow.

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Hopefully other projects can start based on the years we have put in to this and license with the ODbL or perhaps dual-license with CC-BY-SA. With luck they will never have to know how much work it took to get here.

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Perhaps women make it to the doorways of those impressive corner offices and realize that they will never have what it takes to succeed there namely, guaranteed, unpaid domestic care for their kids, enjoyed by every generation of executives that came before them.

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