[Vision2020] Good morning campers - It's installment #19-Encouragement

[lfalen]

Right on Gary. I think that the Gates Foundation does a better job of redistributing their money than the government would and you don't have the handling fees that government extracts.
Roger
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From: "the lockshop" lockshop at pull.twcbc.com
Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:45:43 -0800
To: "Chuck Kovis" ckovis at turbonet.com,  "Jeff Harkins" jeffh at moscow.com, vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Good morning campers - It's installment #19-Encouragement

> Why is it a "vice" to make a large sum of money? For all you know these guys 
> are donating 50% of their after tax income to charity. To decide that 
> someone else has "too much money" and then decide to take some of it away at 
> gunpoint because you think you could spend it more wisely strikes me as far 
> more immoral.
> 
> g
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chuck Kovis" <ckovis at turbonet.com>
> To: "Jeff Harkins" <jeffh at moscow.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 7:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Good morning campers - It's installment 
> #19 -Encouragement
> 
> 
> > Why should ANYONE sacrifice when the top 25 hedge fund managers each made
> > more than a BILLION dollars in salary and bonuses last year?  Talk about
> > virtues.  How about vices?  Chuck Kovis
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Jeff Harkins" <jeffh at moscow.com>
> > To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 9:08 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Good morning campers - It's installment #19 -
> > Encouragement
> >
> >
> >>  Sometimes facts are scary things.  And sometimes scary facts encourage
> >> people to do things to deal with the scary facts.  Sometimes it takes
> >> scary things to encourage people to address their fears and deal with
> >> reality.
> >>
> >>
> >>> "After years of deficit financing for state and local government (dems
> >>> and repubs), it is time to begin to pay for the music.
> >>>
> >> Fact
> >>> "Here is a teaser intro to get folks to focus on the problems we are now
> >>> facing.  Before you gnash your teeth and wring your hands in despair, be
> >>> sure to link to the full article - then let the gnashing begin.
> >>>
> >> Fact
> >>> "We, as a nation and a republic of states are in serious fiscal
> >>> condition.  Our present situation is NOT SUSTAINABLE.  Each U.S. citizen
> >>> is going to sacrifice - over the next several decades."
> >>>
> >> Fact
> >>
> >> Let's make the sacrifice count.  Let's do it well.  Let's fix the 
> >> problem.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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