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

To: ecommerceman who wrote (127632)	2/17/2001 12:20:24 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Listen, my father earned his high school diploma after eight years in the Marine Corps and two years after I was born. When I was a kid he drove us crazy by turning off the lights and harassing me and my siblings to do the same. He never started the car without first combining every thing he had to do that day in one trip. He never threw away anything that had a use. He had a use for everything, everything you and I call junk. After five years we're still making dump runs, but he had a use in mind for every single piece of junk he had. If he'd lived long enough he would have gotten around to every one of them too. He never worked for wages but he never took a dollar he didn't earn double. He was frugal, and he invested -- denying himself things lesser men craved. When he died five years ago it was only through his shrewd planning and the grace of a well-paid lawyer that we did not have to turn his estate over to the government. So don't tell me about the wealthiest two percent of the country. If he'd lived long enough to get his pilot's license he could have spent it all on aviation gas for all I care. He was 83, and he died on his feet. It's wrong for the government to take what my Dad earned just because he died. The government got its due and then some from him while he lived. Injustice is injustice and it doesn't matter if you are a little guy or a rich one. If Bill Gates and Warren Buffet want to give theirs to the government that's their privelege.