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I agree with Mr. Radamacher. The kicker, or any surplus, should be set aside for a rainy day; for years when there is a shortfall. I don't even think I've ever received a kicker check even though I've worked full-time in Oregon since 1995!

In a similar vein, could someone explain to me how The Oregon State Lottery can claim a "profit" of 450 million dollars in 2007 while our schools are cutting days, activities, and teachers' pay; ddollars for social services for our most vulnerable populations are slashed to bare minimum ??? Isn't the Lottery run by the State? Doesn't that money belong to the State? If not, who does it belong to?

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Thank you for sharing your touching story.

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I am a person with AIDS. Although the advances in medicine allow me to now live a fairly "normal" life, I know that someday my body will no longer be able to resist the incessant barrage of trauma inflicted on it by HIV. Eventually I will not be able to take enough nutrition to keep me from wasting. My muscles will atrophy and my nerves will cease to feel. I will be unable to continue to work, to play, to talk on the phone, or even take a bath on my own. No one knows when their time will come to transition from this world to the next, but I do know that I want to be in control of the end of my life. I do not want to suffer the way I've seen some of my friends suffer. I believe in a person's right to death with dignity.

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