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To: Alex MG who wrote (247410)	3/14/2014 11:21:19 AM
From: SiouxPal	Respond to of 541671

bravo

To: Alex MG who wrote (247410)	3/14/2014 11:54:23 AM
From: Steve Lokness	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541671

<<<< most here don't mind that there is a program that provides a free phone >>>> I get that! Honesty. I like honesty. ...........But clearly most here also want someone else to pay for it. The constant drum beat here is to tax the rich more and we will have lots of money to do programs such as a free phone. BELIEVE ME, I get the point. I don't even really care if the poor get phones Alex. I'm agnostic on that. .........BUT, what I am against is borrowing money from China to pay for poor peoples phones. .............When you do this - borrow money to pay for programs you love - you are asking someone else, someone in the future to pay the bill. So it makes you feel good, and it may even be a good thing to do, but to me, it is just dishonest. When I plead for people to tell me how this doesn't get sent to our kids as a bill, some suggest we don't have to pay it back. But that is nothing more than a busted morality. And even if we don't pay it back - part of your taxes today are used to pay interest on that debt. So yes, I get that most here want to provide free phones for the poor. But does the country? They sure don't want to do it if they have to pay for it........