Basically, the thinking was that what consenting adults did in privacy was not going to frighten the horses, so we should just let it be.

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There's too much on my mind, so I just decided to be aggressive and just let it go.

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And we have had seven years where we've just let the minimum wage fall, so that it is possible to be poor and working in the United States, something that would have been illegal in the United States up until 1973 or '74.

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There were some who thought it might be best just to go ahead and let the sword drop so the citizenry could view the carnage and then decide what kind of America we really wanted to be.

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In ACAGI CEO Peter Spatharis' own words: "If our system sees somebody it knows, it tells you, and it tells others so quick decisions can be made" -- and let's just say that those "quick decisions" he refers to aren't spur of the moment invitations to tea parties back at the barracks.

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