On a peripheral note, my daughter today realized she is going to have to write a check for the first time to Unkie Sam come April. Being more towards the left side of center than I am, I had expected she would welcome this opportunity to support the gummint wisdom and programs, but alas this is not the case when it becomes one’s own money being extracted.
--R Sent from iPhone > On Feb 11, 2018, at 12:33 PM, OK Don via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > wrote: > > I have a very conservative friend who decries every dollar the government > spends, and every tax dollar he pays, yet he was the first in line when OK > offered a tax rebate for electric vehicles (bought over-grown golf cart > things for running around his 40 acres) and said "Thanks, tax-payers!". > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 11:09 AM, Mountain Man via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> Curley wrote: >>> Especially OURS! We seem to have an unusually greedy crop of >>> congresscritters. I am guessing about 90% of them need to be replaced, >>> along with almost all appointees in office more than a year and a month. >> >> Yes, totally. >> However, the same greed is rampant among the plebes. Which of us >> would turn down the alleged receipts these critters acquire? Probably >> none of us, really. It takes a better man than us to walk away from a >> bank account. How can we say anything about "them" since we are the >> same? How can we lambast millenials since they were raised by us? >> Since Good Lord is in challenge here, let's just hope for better... or >> worse... >> tin.man >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > > > -- > OK Don > > *“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of > our people need it sorely on these accounts.”* – Mark Twain > > "There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who > learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence > for themselves." > > WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers* > 2013 F150, 18 mpg > 2017 Subaru Legacy, 30 mpg > 1957 C182A, 12 mpg - but at 150 mph! > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
