I find myself on this night with a conundrum.
My right wing told ya so ya stupid bastiches side is overjoyed at the chance to show what damage a lovely & generous offer of liberalism may perchance lay upon the unsuspecting receiver of such goodies.
My selfless humananitarian all are equal before the eyes of whichever greater deity, if any, you should choose to worship....wow that's a load of crap.
Anyway, remmemer a couple of weeks ago, the Oprah Winfrey Show was starting it's 2389th year on TV & in celebration Oprah the Magnificent decided to do a show where she helped some people out. Not having watched her marvelous program I am only going by news reports which may have been seen & edited by CBS & may be incorrect so please bear with me. Anywho, her entire audience was "invited", not just walk-ons. During the few segments she did they helped several needy families by giving large sums of cash, applainces or other goodies to assist the poor & wretched.
At the end of the show, she told her studio audience to look under their seats. Placed there, before taping began, was a box. Some boxes contained the same thing the last segmented participant recived....namely, the keys to a 2005 Pontiac (car-some new model). Brand new. All taxes & first year registration paid. So, the wimins in the audience began to huff & to puff & to get all exasperated & to sweat & to tingle (some, being in such close proximity to Ms Winfrey may have actually orgasmed).
Some 200+ boxes had their lids very unceremoniously ripped off in a most un-ladylike fashion & the entire audience had a Big O. Everybody that day was gifted a new automobile thanks to Oprah the Great & Humble.
Outside they run to stand next to their new car, in the parking lot & give free publicity to O & to fawn over themselves & their untold & new found luck. What a day, oh, my, what a glorious day.
I heard of this the day it happened. Instinctually I was highly suspect. Free? Ain't nothing free. I was wrong...sort of.
The cars in the parking lot were not to be taken home. They were Pontiac publicity cars. Instead, as was later learned, the automobiles DONATED by Pontaic at the suggestion of Ms Winfreys staff and considerable free/reduced rate airtime for the next year on her show, would come in a form of a prommisory note of sorts.
Each member of the audience could, in the next 90 days, go to her local Pontiac dealer & receive up to & including $28,500. worth of new Pontiac. Any model, any goodies as long as it didn't surpass the set amount. Sweet, I'd be happy. One woman was deemed ineligible after she, in a post production interview admitted once being arrested for DWI/DUI. How that matters is beyond me by hey, I'm not making the rules.
Now for the sad part.
So, in essence, the free automobile, isn't. It's a kick ass deal - seven grand for a brand new car. Where may I ask, would a studio audience made up of poor, lower working (or not) class wimins without two penny's to rub together gonna find $7k?
More importantly, why can't every American have to pay taxes in quarterly or annual installments? Do away with "withholding" & make people realize how much they actually pay. If folks had to write Internal Revenue Service atop a few checks each year I'd bet there'd be more clamor for tax relief.
Chi Sun Times
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My right wing told ya so ya stupid bastiches side is overjoyed at the chance to show what damage a lovely & generous offer of liberalism may perchance lay upon the unsuspecting receiver of such goodies.
My selfless humananitarian all are equal before the eyes of whichever greater deity, if any, you should choose to worship....wow that's a load of crap.
Anyway, remmemer a couple of weeks ago, the Oprah Winfrey Show was starting it's 2389th year on TV & in celebration Oprah the Magnificent decided to do a show where she helped some people out. Not having watched her marvelous program I am only going by news reports which may have been seen & edited by CBS & may be incorrect so please bear with me. Anywho, her entire audience was "invited", not just walk-ons. During the few segments she did they helped several needy families by giving large sums of cash, applainces or other goodies to assist the poor & wretched.
At the end of the show, she told her studio audience to look under their seats. Placed there, before taping began, was a box. Some boxes contained the same thing the last segmented participant recived....namely, the keys to a 2005 Pontiac (car-some new model). Brand new. All taxes & first year registration paid. So, the wimins in the audience began to huff & to puff & to get all exasperated & to sweat & to tingle (some, being in such close proximity to Ms Winfrey may have actually orgasmed).
Some 200+ boxes had their lids very unceremoniously ripped off in a most un-ladylike fashion & the entire audience had a Big O. Everybody that day was gifted a new automobile thanks to Oprah the Great & Humble.
Outside they run to stand next to their new car, in the parking lot & give free publicity to O & to fawn over themselves & their untold & new found luck. What a day, oh, my, what a glorious day.
I heard of this the day it happened. Instinctually I was highly suspect. Free? Ain't nothing free. I was wrong...sort of.
The cars in the parking lot were not to be taken home. They were Pontiac publicity cars. Instead, as was later learned, the automobiles DONATED by Pontaic at the suggestion of Ms Winfreys staff and considerable free/reduced rate airtime for the next year on her show, would come in a form of a prommisory note of sorts.
Each member of the audience could, in the next 90 days, go to her local Pontiac dealer & receive up to & including $28,500. worth of new Pontiac. Any model, any goodies as long as it didn't surpass the set amount. Sweet, I'd be happy. One woman was deemed ineligible after she, in a post production interview admitted once being arrested for DWI/DUI. How that matters is beyond me by hey, I'm not making the rules.
Now for the sad part.
So, in essence, the free automobile, isn't. It's a kick ass deal - seven grand for a brand new car. Where may I ask, would a studio audience made up of poor, lower working (or not) class wimins without two penny's to rub together gonna find $7k?
More importantly, why can't every American have to pay taxes in quarterly or annual installments? Do away with "withholding" & make people realize how much they actually pay. If folks had to write Internal Revenue Service atop a few checks each year I'd bet there'd be more clamor for tax relief.
Chi Sun Times
NBC5
