Democrats have said during the current debate that because Congress has never offset the cost of the benefits, doing so now would not only nullify the stimulative effect of giving money to people who immediately spend it, it would also fundamentally undermine unemployment insurance in the future.
Or, to put it a differently, Roe v. Wade may be something of a trade-off: it guarantees basic abortion rights to all women, at the cost of perpetuating a debate that, because of its abstraction, will never end.
Other areas of the Japanese economy are also under discussion -- drugs, medical equipment and construction, among others -- but it is the telecommunications debate that has become heated because its outcome has important implications for future economic growth here.
And so a debate that was initially concerning because of the impositions it placed on internet users quickly became about the problems of the parliamentary process, a change of focus I'm sure the BPI and Conservative party were very happy about.
"What we're hoping to do by making these documents public, is to initiate a public debate that never took place because the negotiations take place behind closed doors," said Jean-François Julliard, executive director of Greenpeace France.
There's a huge debate about whether Obama could have gotten more — a debate that can never be resolved, because we can't rerun the political experiment.
It produced no significant controversy in the ratification debates that followed because nobody cared about the fine print in the face of much larger burning questions about vesting so much power in a single person.
There's a big debate on that, because it depends on whether you use satellite measurements, balloon, or you use ground ones that have been adjusted.
This is because the debates that arose around the place of the women's movement in class politics were different in the early and mid-twentieth century than they were in the 1960s when many feminist theorists were trying to define themselves independently of the left anti-Vietnam war and civil rights movements of the time.
And his tweet resonated, perhaps unluckily for him, because of the timing and tone, and above all because it did, concisely and unpleasantly, state the terms of a debate that, partly because of Edward Snowden, is at a critical point.
"We strongly debated that, because if we could suck it up and live there for a year, we could have saved $500 times 12, which is $6,000" toward a down payment.
