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just didn t get there. but there are very powerful special interests working morning, noon and night, full page ads, intimidation, contributions, all kinds of stuff going on. this is the realm of everyone likes service, no one wants to pay for it. this was specifically for education. it was not for our city budget. so we either want to have a good education system or we don t and i don t think that the industry was going to fall apart becaused on this particular proposal. the city, the state and the country will fall apart if we don t invest in education. so that s what i m concerned about at this point in time. is there a lesson in that effort? i suspect once we start moving here in washington on closing the mortgage interest deduction, cadillac health plans, etc., you re going to see the same kind of thing on a bigger, broader scale. every program has an interest and every program has a special interest. people like change as long as it doesn t affect them. the mo ....