Posted by fayeroe on December 1, 2008, at 10:37:56
In reply to Re: Do all president-elects do this? » fayeroe, posted by Sigismund on December 1, 2008, at 1:14:47
I suspect that during Christmas preparations, I'll find that old book and will be able to email you the document. I swear, it will give you shivers. To read that and realize that the Republican party was so different than it is today..I was born the year before that convention.
The first year that this administration served, Cheney paid $43M in taxes.And I cannot wrap my mind around how much money has gone into big businesses since then. After all we have a war to run and guns have to be manufacturered and coffins built.
All of this reminds me, Sigismund, of working for a "religious mission" when I was a teen. It was called "Christ's 40 Acres" and was about 9 miles from our ranch. I drove down on weekdays and typed endless letters to send out to contributors. The letter started like this, "Tis a beautiful day in the Kiamichis, this day of the Lord" and on and on...THEN it got down to business..."show me the money". The minister talked of barefoot Choctaw Indians with no food or lights. (so not true) He spoke of mysterious rural diseases that I had never realized that I was inflicted with. And then he asked again for their money. I had the letter memorized.
People sent their SS checks..they sent egg money. They sent clothing that he sold to the "barefoot Choctaws" and so much more.
The people that he wrote to thought he lived among the poor whites and the Choctaws and ministered to us night and day. The truth was that he lived on a big estate in Florida. His daughter and her husband ran the "mission" in Oklahoma.And there has to be sexual misbehaviors, right? The SIL minister tried to grope me one day but changed his mind when he saw my face.This was happening while he railed from the pulpit about the teens attending rodeo dances on Saturday nights. What a hypocrite. His son owns (through the money from the "associates") a big ranch and still lives there.
When I turnred 16 (worked there 3 summers) and went away to college, I told my parents that I would not be working there the next summer as I was sick of the lies and manipulations. I will always believe that my daddy felt the same way because he didn't protest at all when I refused to work for them again. My religious sister worked there for about 30 years. ugh.....
There you have it...take from the poor and give to the rich.
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