In a message dated 12/9/98 7:56:08 PM Central Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << Whenever I bring this up, I'm always careful not to belittle the efforts of those (including myself) who have put alot of time and effort into the battle vs PD (e.g., all of those who have laboured long and hard for the passage of the Udall Bill). >> PD costs society more than $68 million a day--much of it tax dollars ,(although how much has not been documented to the best of my knowledfge) The thing I can't understand is with the fiscal good sense it makes to cure this thing, why did we have to beat our brains out to get Congress to act? Why didn't they just pass the darn Mo Act right away? Regards, WHH 55/38/37