Text 9214, 99 rader
Skriven 2005-02-22 23:38:13 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 9211 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
Ärende: conservatives giving
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TIM RICHARDSON -> GARY BRASWELL wrote:
 TR> 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
 TR> 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
 TR> 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
 TR> 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
 TR> too.

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


 TR> Look, you need to wise up to something;


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


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


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


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


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

I don't have to wise up to anything.

And I did not ask you for a single thing.

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