Text 9218, 118 rader
Skriven 2005-02-23 05:44:24 av John Hull (1:379/1.99)
   Kommentar till text 9214 av Gary Braswell (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: conservatives giving
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22 Feb 05 23:38, Gary Braswell wrote to TIM RICHARDSON:

 GB> TIM RICHARDSON -> GARY BRASWELL wrote:
 TR>> On 02-22-05, GARY BRASWELL said to JOHN HULL:


 GB>>> Thinking that concentrating on conservative friends who work at 
 GB>>> very conservative companies, I passed the document onto them. I 
 GB>>> also
 TR>> posted it
 GB>>> at where I work.

 GB>>> Its been two weeks now.

 GB>>> I was sure the stuff would begin to flow in from one company that 
 GB>>> a
 TR>> friend
 GB>>> works for. They have 80 people in his division and a vast 
 GB>>> majority are conservative who actively send patriotic items around 
 GB>>> the internet, staunch Bush supporters, they only allow Fox to be 
 GB>>> shown in the lunch room, very vocal about their beliefs, etc. My 
 GB>>> friend there was also certain of the response, he got 3 boxes 
 GB>>> ready. He emailed everyone there

 GB>>> with the document and posted it. As of today, not one item or one 
 GB>>> penny has come from a single conservative in the office.

 GB>>> The only person to contribute oddly enough is the only known 
 GB>>> (openly liberal) liberal in the office. He contributed to it 
 GB>>> immediately with a

 GB>>> nice check. Another office I sent it two was of a friend who is 
 GB>>> probably the most conservative person I know. He is also quite 
 GB>>> generous. He is constantly on me all the time for my moderate 
 GB>>> views.

 GB>>> He posted and emailed it at his office.

 GB>>> Its been two weeks now and nothing, nada. The firm is painfully
 GB>>> conservative. Bobby sent a very generous check himself and said 
 GB>>> he was ashamed of the lack of response in his office.

 GB>>> A neighbor who saw me with the documents, asked to see one. He is 
 GB>>> one of those rare beasts, a liberal who was in the Army. He never 
 GB>>> saw
 TR>> action, but
 GB>>> asked if he could keep it.

 GB>>> He works at a college. A college that has had on more than one 
 GB>>> occasion anti-Bush rallies. I thought nothing would come of it.

 GB>>> So far its been a large response. Not in money of course with 
 GB>>> starving students, but goodies.

 GB>>> Now what am I trying to say here? Conservatives are fakes? 
 GB>>> Tightwads?

 GB>>> Nope. Many of you here I know are quite generous.

 GB>>> What I am saying is that the liberals I see in here, day in and 
 GB>>> day out, generically described as evil, idiots, thieves, liars and 
 GB>>> against the troops are helping out our troops.

 GB>>> I know there are liberals out there who hate everything dealing 
 GB>>> with the US, but not all are like that.

 GB>>> I also know now there are a lot of mouth-only conservatives out 
 GB>>> there
 TR>> too.

 GB>>> And why? Because they are all human first.


 TR>> Look, you need to wise up to something;


 TR>> The war in Iraq is costing the U.S. taxpayer a pretty penny. We 
 TR>> aren't only
 TR>> paying for the combat units doing the actual fighting, we are also
 TR>> paying for
 TR>> the training of the `new' Iraqi military force, doing most of the
 TR>> training of
 TR>> them, and also paying and supplying much `infrastructure'.


 TR>> I saw a breakdown of the tax funds from each city and state in the 
 TR>> U.S. just
 TR>> today, and I thought of it immediately I read this little whine of 
 TR>> yours.


 TR>> Of the funds that have gone to pay the *many* facets of the war in 
 TR>> Iraq, 26.2
 TR>> billion of it came from the state of California (thats *Billion*, 
 TR>> with a "B").


 TR>> Broken down to cities and counties, 2.2 billion (again; 
 TR>> Billion....with a "B")
 TR>> of that tax revenue came right from San Diego County.


 TR>> We already `gave at the office' (of the local IRS).

 GB> I don't have to wise up to anything.

 GB> And I did not ask you for a single thing.

Then why are you whining about how conservatives haven't contributed?  Because
that's exactly what it sounds like from where we sit.

John 

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