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Re: shuttle disaster



On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 09:22, DvB wrote:
> Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:34:51PM -0600, DvB wrote:
> > > "James Buchanan" <jamesbuch@iprimus.com.au> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Famine victims OK, but nobody has mentioned the people living in
> > > > poverty in America.  Boost welfare, more education funding, subsidise
> > > > pay rises for the lowest paid workers... ooops, America's budget all
> > > > gone ;-)
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > <sarcasm>
> > > Of course! If we spent that much, people with enough money to have
> > > significant amounts of it in taxable stock accounts wouldn't be able to
> > > keep it all!
> > > </sarcasm>
> > 
> > Yeah, after all it's not their money .. they just worked hard to earn
> > it.
> > 
> 
> 
> You don't "work hard" for stock dividends. You just put your money in
> stocks and they come all by themselves... although I guess I did word
> that a little strangely.

Well, you worked hard to get the money to purchase the stocks in
the 1st place...

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