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runaroundsue
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 Posted: 10/18/04 - 20:13 Post subject: mock elections at elementary school
we had interesting conversations at dinner tonight.
5th grader: Kerry would not make a very good leader. He got a purple heart in viet nam. He thought he saw Viet Cong and threw a hand grenade into a rice patty. The rice flew up and stuck in his butt. He received the purple heart when they extracted the rice.
3rd grader: Bush is much more handsome than Kerry. Kerry, is not good-looking at all. I laughed. He continued. "he wants to raise taxes on people that haved worked really hard to get where they are and give it to the lazy people"
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Posted: 10/18/04 - 20:28 Post subject:
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Posted: 10/18/04 - 20:56 Post subject:
We get those kinds of comments, though as you'd guess, the comments about Bush are less flattering. When our son was 4 he "voted" for Bush because he liked his tie, this time he's voting for Kerry because "he (Bush)wants our soldiers to get killed" and he did not hear that from me.
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 10/18/04 - 21:01 Post subject:
for the record: we did set the little one straight that poor people are NOT necessarily lazy.
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Posted: 10/18/04 - 21:23 Post subject:
| runaroundsue wrote: | | for the record: we did set the little one straight that poor people are NOT necessarily lazy. |
They aren't? I thought that was why I am lazy.
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Posted: 10/19/04 - 01:50 Post subject:
| runaroundsue wrote: | | for the record: we did set the little one straight that poor people are NOT necessarily lazy. |
Where did the implication that the lazy people the child spoke about were poor?
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 10/19/04 - 08:39 Post subject:
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Where did the implication that the lazy people the child spoke about were poor? |
oh yeah.....good one. so the hard-working rich taxes are going to the lazy rich. The middle class are paying for the poor. Better?
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Posted: 10/19/04 - 08:49 Post subject:
My 8 year old has been asking a lot of questions about the election. Its interesting to get her perspective on the election.
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Posted: 10/19/04 - 09:05 Post subject:
last night...
6 year old said he's voting for President Bush
8 year old said she's voting for the "new President" What's his name again?
Dad, who are you voting for?
Me=
still undecided.
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Posted: 10/19/04 - 09:06 Post subject:
| runaroundsue wrote: | | oh yeah.....good one. so the hard-working rich taxes are going to the lazy rich. The middle class are paying for the poor. Better? |
'hard-working rich' ... so often these days an oxymoron in the corporate age.
And don't kid yourself - the middle class is paying for EVERYBODY.
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Posted: 10/19/04 - 09:13 Post subject:
My 14 yr old: Bush and Kerry both suck. Go Nader.
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runaroundsue
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Posted: 10/19/04 - 11:02 Post subject:
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'hard-working rich' ... so often these days an oxymoron in the corporate age.
And don't kid yourself - the middle class is paying for EVERYBODY. |
well, Elkid there are rich that don't sit on their fannies in an office believe it or not. My husband goes days without sleep and stands the entire time he works. My neighbor, a nurse, wore her pedometer to work one day and logged 8 miles. I consider my husband hard-working and he is "rich" by earned income standards. Unfornuately, without corporate savvy and loopholes that management and administrations get, it is all taxed without loopholes.....we live more like upper, middle class. Forty hours to my husband is an oxymoron as he can log that in 2-3 days sometimes.
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Posted: 10/19/04 - 11:43 Post subject:
| runaroundsue wrote: | | well, Elkid there are rich that don't sit on their fannies in an office believe it or not. |
True. That's why I said so often, not ALL THE TIME.
| Quote: | | Unfornuately, without corporate savvy and loopholes that management and administrations get, it is all taxed without loopholes. |
Don't pretend that there aren't more loopholes for the rich than any other socioeconomic class. The upper class created loopholes.
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Posted: 10/19/04 - 11:55 Post subject:
| elkid wrote: |
And don't kid yourself - the middle class is paying for EVERYBODY. |
Which is precisely why I think Kerry is full of poo about "rolling back" the tax cuts for only the rich. The rich he's talking about (including himself and his senator buddies, not people like Sue and Dr. Mike) will nine times out of 10 find ways to get out of paying so who will really end up shouldering the burden?
Plus, he obviously flunked math in college.....I've seen nothing but reports and it came up in all three debates, that even if he's telling the truth about only rolling back the cuts for those over $200K, that still leaves a shortage in his budget. Wanna bet I know whose pockets his grubby paws dip into to make that up?
Riiiiiight....the good old rapidly shrinking middle class. 
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