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Re: Indiana rail trespassers throw themselves on track to escape death as train approaches them on bridge – video
Author: More brains than Brains
Date: 08-05-2014 - 11:36
E Wrote:
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> brains Wrote:
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> > To the person whose sole identity is behind a
> > dollar bill - There are things in this world
> which
> > completely surpass such considerations as those
> > merely pecuniary and also, didn't your mother
> > teach you that you have to share things
> sometimes.
> > As social animals, humans tend to need to group
> > together, and taxes are the one way that social
> > behaviour is lubricated, so broaden your
> outlook.
> > God knows, we all have to pay taxes, mostly of
> the
> > most regressive sort , sales taxes, which
> > disproportionately fall on the poor, of whose
> > number, I'm guessing, you are not.
> > So while you're counting, Scrooge
> McDuck-like,
> > your pile, remember Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell
> > Holmes' dictum,"I don't mind paying taxes; with
> > them I buy civilization!"
> > The people on that bridge surely couldn't
> have
> > incurred YOU any costs and even had they
> excited
> > more expense, the emergency services have
> things
> > called budgets which anticipate eventualities;
> > indeed that is why we're here in the first
> place.
> > So, drop this idee fixe with peoples foibles
> and
> > your purse alone. We all have to take up each
> > other's slack, viz. the annual summer wildfire
> > season.
>
> Ummm....where does that budget money come from?
And the cost of the fuel, replenishing supplies and investigation, and the delays to the railroad and crew
The cost is less if the emergency services doesn't turn a wheel
Brains is too stupid or too left wing to figure that part out!
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> brains Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > To the person whose sole identity is behind a
> > dollar bill - There are things in this world
> which
> > completely surpass such considerations as those
> > merely pecuniary and also, didn't your mother
> > teach you that you have to share things
> sometimes.
> > As social animals, humans tend to need to group
> > together, and taxes are the one way that social
> > behaviour is lubricated, so broaden your
> outlook.
> > God knows, we all have to pay taxes, mostly of
> the
> > most regressive sort , sales taxes, which
> > disproportionately fall on the poor, of whose
> > number, I'm guessing, you are not.
> > So while you're counting, Scrooge
> McDuck-like,
> > your pile, remember Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell
> > Holmes' dictum,"I don't mind paying taxes; with
> > them I buy civilization!"
> > The people on that bridge surely couldn't
> have
> > incurred YOU any costs and even had they
> excited
> > more expense, the emergency services have
> things
> > called budgets which anticipate eventualities;
> > indeed that is why we're here in the first
> place.
> > So, drop this idee fixe with peoples foibles
> and
> > your purse alone. We all have to take up each
> > other's slack, viz. the annual summer wildfire
> > season.
>
> Ummm....where does that budget money come from?
And the cost of the fuel, replenishing supplies and investigation, and the delays to the railroad and crew
The cost is less if the emergency services doesn't turn a wheel
Brains is too stupid or too left wing to figure that part out!
