At 09:23 PM 7/24/01, John D. Giorgis wrote:
>At 02:51 PM 7/23/01 -0700 Kristin A. Ruhle wrote:
> >So what are you planning to do with the Bush Tax Rebate? (He wants you to
> >spend it. WHich is a good reason not to if you don't like him.)
>
>Eh, I'm going to be using it to pay down a bit of credit card debt.
>
> >I've thought of spending mine on environmental technology stuff (
> >.......
> >There's the donation route.
> >.......
> >Of course, there isn't a charity out there that doesn't want it. .
> >.........
> >THere's the investment route.
> >........
> >I dunno, either giving it away or using it for environmental things (or
> >both - give to Sierra Club?)
> >.........
> >but I like buying things too, so i am an evil hypocrite...sacrificing it
> >to make a political statement won't be easy. I buy clothes and CDs,
>
>And the beauty of it all Kristin - is that *you* get to spend how *your*
>money is spent, instead of letting President Bush, Trent Lott, Tom
>Daschele, Dennis Hastert, and the rest of us here in Washington decide how
>your money should be spent.
>
>That Kristin, is called freedom, and its Republican, and I do hope you
>enjoy it.
>
>Because no matter what you do with your money Kristin, you're doing what
>*you* want to do with it, which is exactly what President Bush and the rest
>of your good friends at the Republican Party voted for - and there's no way
>that you can escape that. :)
Hey, if you want to, you can even burn it (safely, of course), and, at
least for now, you won't have to pay any tax on polluting the air with the
smoke . . .
--Ronn! :)
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I never dreamed that I would see the last.
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