Gill, When I got your response to my post yesterday, I was on the way out the door and did not have time to reply. Knowing that you enjoy playing the devil's advocate, I was ready to give a non-legal rebuttal but this post from Scott and your response made it somewhat unnecessary. Your family metaphor was indeed flawed as responsible citizens and parents care for their own and others, when possible. The problem is that our federal government IS NOT fiscally responsible and is creating a burden for generations to come. It is certainly debatable whether bailing out Wall Street, banks and the auto industry is the right thing to do, but the so-called stimulus package is heavily laden with pork barrel spending with an eye towards keeping Democrat politicians in office. However, I feel that this irresponsible spending will hurt them in the long run "when the chickens come home to roost". This package should not have the many billions of dollars to improve the infrastructure of cities, of which, Houston is number two at the top of the list. There are billions going towards unnecessary items which have no relevance to improving our economy. We should keep further replies personal so as not to bore the multitudes. Fritz
-----Original Message----- From: Gill Ediger [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:22 PM To: Scott Nicholson; Fritz Holt; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Ashmore, Stephen C; [email protected]; [email protected]; Chris Young; Bob Rathbun; Reed Moraw; Dianne West; Henri Childers; Mandy Holt; Holt, Jenny; Becky Kruse; Off Topic Subject: Re: [ot_caving] FW: A short piece of wisdom At 04:08 PM 2/19/2009, Scott Nicholson wrote: > However, Gill, your family metaphor is flawed (imho) because in > this instance we're not talking children vs adults. Yep, I knew that when I wrote it, but I wanted to point out that there are different concepts of 'government'--and they are related to who works and who doesn't and who makes money and who leaches off whom. The original point of what Fritz sent out was well taken--it does happen that way. But that's not the only way it happens, hence myopic. I was trying to take it to the other extreme--with some attention to brevity, which may have confused the issue. > Outside this argument, but inherent in the larger discussion, are > the people who do not or will not work. Yep, again. On either end of the social spectrum there is a leisure class. Ever notice how many of those on the high end don't work? I wonder where we retired people fit in. --Ediger --------------------------------------------------------------------- Give this to a friend: [email protected] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- Give this to a friend: [email protected] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
