> What a kind reply to my (perhaps excessively) testy email.
> Thank you.
> And honestly, one of the main reasons I did not do so was
> that I do
> not presume to know more than my US Representative (Zoe
> Lofgren)
> About the last sentence, we are in agreement, but I'm
> not so sure about
> the 90% waste figure, would like to know where it came
> from, but it
> sounds too much like the tripe that the "Howard Jarvis
> Taxpayers
> Association" propaganda spews all over California
> ballots every
> election, and which dropped the nation's best
> educational system to
> 49th place. Any time I hear someone (or a group) identify
> themselves
> as a taxpayer, I know that I'm in for some crap about
> the obvious
> evils of da big bad gummint.
> I think of myself as a citizen, a member of a community, a
> participant,
> a recipient of benefits and a grateful payer of appropriate
> dues.
> Though never more or less than required, honestly.
> Dave
when i make a mistake, dave, especially when speaking off the top of my head,
then it is incumbent of me to admit it.
The up to 90% estimate is not meant to be a statistic, just a vague and ancient
recollection...
jon
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