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Skriven 2005-02-22 18:33:00 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GARY BRASWELL
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On 02-22-05, GARY BRASWELL said to JOHN HULL:


GB>Thinking that concentrating on conservative friends who work at very
GB>conservative companies, I passed the document onto them. I also posted it
GB>at where I work.

GB>Its been two weeks now.

GB>I was sure the stuff would begin to flow in from one company that a friend
GB>works for. They have 80 people in his division and a vast majority are
GB>conservative who actively send patriotic items around the internet,
GB>staunch Bush supporters, they only allow Fox to be shown in the lunch
GB>room, very vocal about their beliefs, etc. My friend there was also
GB>certain of the response, he got 3 boxes ready. He emailed everyone there

GB>with the document and posted it. As of today, not one item or one penny
GB>has come from a single conservative in the office.

GB>The only person to contribute oddly enough is the only known (openly
GB>liberal) liberal in the office. He contributed to it immediately with a

GB>nice check. Another office I sent it two was of a friend who is probably
GB>the most conservative person I know. He is also quite generous. He is
GB>constantly on me all the time for my moderate views.

GB>He posted and emailed it at his office.

GB>Its been two weeks now and nothing, nada. The firm is painfully
GB>conservative. Bobby sent a very generous check himself and said he was
GB>ashamed of the lack of response in his office.

GB>A neighbor who saw me with the documents, asked to see one. He is one of
GB>those rare beasts, a liberal who was in the Army. He never saw action, but
GB>asked if he could keep it.

GB>He works at a college. A college that has had on more than one occasion
GB>anti-Bush rallies. I thought nothing would come of it.

GB>So far its been a large response. Not in money of course with starving
GB>students, but goodies.

GB>Now what am I trying to say here? Conservatives are fakes? Tightwads?

GB>Nope. Many of you here I know are quite generous.

GB>What I am saying is that the liberals I see in here, day in and day out,
GB>generically described as evil, idiots, thieves, liars and against the
GB>troops are helping out our troops.

GB>I know there are liberals out there who hate everything dealing with the
GB>US, but not all are like that.

GB>I also know now there are a lot of mouth-only conservatives out there too.

GB>And why? Because they are all human first.


Look, you need to wise up to something;


The war in Iraq is costing the U.S. taxpayer a pretty penny. We aren't only
paying for the combat units doing the actual fighting, we are also paying for
the training of the `new' Iraqi military force, doing most of the training of
them, and also paying and supplying much `infrastructure'.


I saw a breakdown of the tax funds from each city and state in the U.S. just
today, and I thought of it immediately I read this little whine of yours.


Of the funds that have gone to pay the *many* facets of the war in Iraq, 26.2
billion of it came from the state of California (thats *Billion*, with a "B").


Broken down to cities and counties, 2.2 billion (again; Billion....with a "B")
of that tax revenue came right from San Diego County.


We already `gave at the office' (of the local IRS).

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