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

To: Johannes Pilch who wrote (423347)	7/6/2003 11:14:23 AM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>>He worked hard, earned his money honestly, gave some of it to charity (when he didn’t have to), took care of his financial obligations and then played with some of it in a casino. There was no natural immorality here in the least – nary a bit.<< I disagree, he did not earn all the funds honestly and besides it was obscene for him to lose many millions no matter what percentage of his income it happened to be while writing books on virtue with the intention of making profits. He sold a product with false advertising--that's dishonest. In addition, part of the frivolously thrown-away funds were paid to him by hard-working taxpayers. If he had not been part of a Presidential Adm at one time, no one in the country would have any idea who Bill Bennett is & therefore would never have bought his books or paid anything to hear one of his lectures on the speech circuit. Between his books & speaking tours, a large part of his wasted gambling funds were actually picked dishonestly from the pockets of citizens who very well might have otherwise donated the $$s to a worthy cause. Instead they used that money for his financial gain under the impression a man of such high virtue deserved it & he then proceeded to throw it away for a cheap thrill.(rather an expensive thrill--if he lost a few thousand instead of a few million the difference in depth of thrill probably would have been negligible.) In addition, If Mr. Bennett actually was the virtuous man he advertised himself to be there would have been no need for him to procure jollies in such a crass way--his personal life would be filled with so much satisfaction & personal highs(not drug induced) that his excess funds would now be feeding & clothing poverty stricken children. Looks like yet another demonstration of the truism that money cannot buy happiness.