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   Message 662 of 2,468   
   Brother Nate to Eric Johnson   
   Re: Why Pot? Why Not?   
   13 Jan 04 16:18:06   
   
   XPost: talk.politics.drugs   
   From: nathan_engle@yahoo.com   
      
   Eric Johnson wrote:   
   > Brother Nate wrote:   
   > > With the long-term no-interest loan Mr Bush has given you   
   > > at the expense of tomorrow's taxpayers I bet you can buy a   
   > > lot of pot at your local Netherlands coffee shop, but I'm   
   > > still not sure I'd call it a wise fiscal policy.   
      
   > Actually it makes it easier to take care of an aged grand mother, a cousin   
   > of 7, her worthless mother and 2 aging parents as well as myself with the   
   > problems that I have.   
      
   Too bad for your 7 year old cousin that Mr Bush's profligate   
   spending is going to leave her stuck paying for the whole   
   lot of you, plus social services in Iraq that we can't afford   
   for our own people, and even flights to the moon.   
      
   > Screw you and your long term no interest loan. I write -BIG- checks to the   
   > IRS each quarter, have been doing so for 12 years, and, as one of the 1% of   
   > highest earners in the nation, from 1966 to 1983 my family paid at times 70%   
   > of its marginal income, which was a lot, to the government.   
      
   Heaven forbid our society should collect its operating   
   expenses from people who have lots of money *today* when   
   there's a great big future of children who aren't yet able   
   to vote against getting stuck with the tab.   
      
   > Then they created the IRA, but took most of its benefits away from high   
   > earners just 4 years later.   
   >   
   > We pay, and have paid enough, and there is something immoral about taxing   
   > the dead. It is nice to confirm your dark nature, Nate, that you have your   
   > hand in the affairs of the dead.   
      
   I can live without taxing the dead, but you are wrong if   
   you think I'm going to sit quietly while a bunch of "top   
   1%" rich folks do to tomorrow's citizens what Kenny Lay   
   and other Bush family cronies are already trying to do   
   to us today.   
      
   I'm not sure why I should be surprised that your politics   
   are rooted, like your "recreational" drug habits, mostly   
   in selfishness and myopia.   
      
   --   
   Brother Nate               Electron Juggler   
   nathan_engle@yahoo.com     http://mypage.iu.edu/~nengle   
   "Some Assembly Required"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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