fathers and sons

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apoplexy

I've read a couple of People's Forum letters about how wrong it was to have an inauguration with the tsunami tragedy so close, and how the $40 million could have been so much better spent. It's interesting thought, but with most of the activities planned long before the disaster, I wonder how much could really have been saved.

But hey! What about the the $15 million that John Kerry had left over in his war chest after the election? Just lying around gathering dust -- think what a humanitarian he'd be if he donated it! But that won't happen.

This country is sending $350 million plus, and if you look at those nasty old taxpayer breakdowns, it's mostly conservative money. Even money says the same is true for private contributions.

Luke Steele
Creedmoor

The last paragraph is what gets me. What, conservatives just pay more taxes? BullSHIT! I mean, just because their conservative? Or because they're richer? But the rich re/elected Bush so they'd be taxed less. And study after study has shown (okay, I'm doing something I've told my students time and again never to do, which is refer to a nebulous "study") that the percentage of income a person donates to charity increases in inverse proportion to the amount of money she makes. (Did I say that correctly? The poor donate more than the rich.)

If you want to talk campaign funds, why doesn't Bush donate from his personal stash, since he raised so much more money than Kerry, and since he's asking all of us to pony up? Jesus, mary & joseph, the people in NC are truly scary.

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