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Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by cookiecaper on Saturday August 06, 2011 @09:55AM (#2853835)
Prisons are primarily a state-level expense. You don't get sent to federal prison for possession.
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Re:United States loses AAA credit rating from S&P by william42 on Saturday August 06, 2011 @01:42PM (#2854420)
A good part of the federal debt from the stimulus and such is to keep state governments from collapsing due to the fact that they can't run a deficit.
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