[TheForge] YAK- who really runs the country

Mon Dec 8 21:33:00 2003

They tell me you ussually earn it when you marry for money.
Randy Mundt
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David E. Smucker" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: [TheForge] YAK- who really runs the country


> And how did George Washington get his money?  He married it.
> 
> He of course he did a lot to increase their money, but it never hurts to
> marry a rich widow.
> 
> Now I wasn't that smart.
> 
> Dave Smucker
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Ries Niemi" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 2:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] YAK- who really runs the country
> 
> 
> >
> > On Monday, December 8, 2003, at 08:25 AM, Lynn Emrich wrote:
> >
> > > Don't forget that our country is run by lawyers!
> >
> > Actually this is not really true any more- if it ever was.
> > The country is run by millionaires. Most of both the senate and house
> > are millionaires, and many are not lawyers. Some of them are actually
> > used car salesman, who did good. The president, vice president, and
> > secretaries of most everything are millionaires. Going to Law school
> > actually requires hard work and studying- I know, because, after my
> > youngest sibling started school, my mother went back to law school. She
> > had to work very hard. A certain unnamed person who holds the highest
> > post in the land could never have passed those tests.
> >
> > It costs 5-10 million to be a senator now. You either have, or borrow
> > it. You borrow it by making promises to those who do have it.
> > Lawyers make a convenient target for the millionaires to wave in front
> > of us, but they are really mostly just employees.
> >
> > Just remember who America's first millionaire was- the first american
> > citizen to be worth a million dollars- thats right, George Washington.
> > The more things change, the more they stay the same.
> >
> > ries
> >
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