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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PartyTime who wrote (42387)	10/4/2000 10:31:06 AM
From: Bill	Respond to of 769667

I think Mrs. Skinner is well off. Doesn't she own her house outright and have lot's of income from her pension? Heck, Gore might even be labelling her "rich" if she decided to vote for a republican!

To: PartyTime who wrote (42387)	10/4/2000 11:55:37 AM
From: kvkkc1	Respond to of 769667

She's too proud to beg from her family, but she's happy to beg from the gov't. Typical greedy leech.knc

To: PartyTime who wrote (42387)	10/4/2000 5:45:39 PM
From: Elvis Jones	Respond to of 769667

Regarding her refusal to take money from her son's family? Again, this goes back to the pride of the elderly. How rich are her children, for example? Would she want to take from them? Probably not. Elderly folk are very resistant when it comes to such matters. She does take money from her son's family - money for a new roof and money from annual property taxes. No pride there. On a positive note, Mrs. Skinner probably also believes the can collecting process is a great source for exercise. I say: Praise this woman! I do praise people like this. I've even met a few. They like the exercise and cleaning up the roads. Would anyone argue prescription drugs are not expensive? Yes. Inflation on older script drugs is low. It's the newer drugs providing the high costs. Maybe we should give up drug research because new drugs costs so much. And why don't either point out non-profits like www.themedicineprogram.com? Wouldn't that help Winnie? If you think about it, were Mrs. Skinner trying to collect her cans in 1986, she wouldn't have gotten any money--only exercise. Wrong! I met people collecting cans in my college days (80-84). They were making money off of them then too. Pretty much the Republican party is the party of the rich, by the rich and for the rich. It's comprised primarily of well-to-do white establishment folk. Were it not for NRA issues and Christian Coalition issues, there'd be few ordinary Americans among them. I'm not rich (hardly). I'm trying to make a living, raise kids, pay a mortgage, etc. I'm not an NRA or CC member. I guess I'm one of the few, the proud, the middle-class Republicans! (Scares ya, huh?)