[Vision2020] Fw: A $50 Lesson

[Tom Hansen]

Excellent updating, Sunil.

Sunil Ramalingam, what it means to be radically moderate.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho



On Fri, February 11, 2011 7:15 am, Sunil Ramalingam wrote:
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> It struck me that something was missing from this, so I tried to make some
> changes to reflect reality:
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> A $50 Lesson
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> Back in 2002 I asked my friends' little girl what she wanted to be when
> she grows up.  She said
> she wanted to be President someday.
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> Both of her parents, liberal Democrats, were standing there, so I asked
> her: "If you were
> President, what would be the first thing you would do?"  She replied: "I'd
> give food to the
> homeless people."  Her parents beamed with pride.
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> "Wow... what a worthy goal," I told her. "But you don't have to wait until
> you're President to do
> that. You can become owner of an oil company or a mercenary company. Then
> when President Bush
> invades Iraq illegally, you might profit tremendously when we try to take
> over their oil; granted,
> that's speculative. But if you start that mercenary company, you are
> guaranteed to make an obscene
> amount of money. Then I'll take you over to the grocery store where the
> homeless guy hangs out,
> and you can give him the $50 to use toward food."
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> She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in
> the eye and said, "That
> sounds
> great! And the Faithful will pretend it's all good, and maybe they'll send
> out sanctimonious and
> self-congratulatory mass emails and trite stories!"
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> I said: "Welcome to the Republican Party."  Her parents still aren't
> speaking to me.
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> There, that's more like it.
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> Sunil
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> A $50 Lesson
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> I recently asked
> my friends' little girl what she wanted to be when she grows up.  She said
> she wanted to be President someday.
>
> Both of her parents, liberal
> Democrats, were standing there, so I asked her: "If you were President,
> what
> would be the first thing you would do?"  She replied: "I'd give food to
> the
> homeless people."  Her parents beamed with pride.
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> "Wow...
> what a worthy goal," I told her. "But you don't have to wait until you're
> President to do that. You can come over to my house and mow the lawn, pull
> weeds, and sweep my patio, and I'll pay you $50. Then I'll take you over
> to the
> grocery store where the homeless guy hangs out, and you can give him the
> $50 to
> use toward food."
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> She thought that over for a few seconds, then she
> looked me straight in the eye and asked: "Why doesn't the homeless guy
> come over
> and do the work, and you can just pay him the $50?'
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> I said: "Welcome to
> the Republican Party."  Her parents still aren't speaking to
> me.
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