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RE: [RC] [RC] Wolves,bears,snakes,public lands/yippee - heidiRay, I can't really tell if you're serious with this post or not, but, let's just assume you are. I remember, years ago, sitting in a bar, I had gone in to get one beer after a rough day of air traffic controlling and I was in my Air Force uniform. This was back when men (or wimmen) in uniform weren't seen as heroes or people who got as much respect from the general public as they do now. Anyway, this guy comes up to me, never met him before, he had had a few, and began telling me how his tax dollars were paying my salary. I just happened to have a calculator in my jacket pocket (I think it was tax season and I do my own taxes) so, with him watching, I crunched some numbers together figuring out, roughly of course, just exactly how much of his tax dollars came out to make up my annual salary. I was taking some college math courses back then so I thought I could actually do this within reason. I came up with 2 cents. I reached into my pocket and gave this fellow a nickle. Told him he could keep the change and left the bar. Gee, for once I've got to applaud Howard. Struggling in a community where over 92% of the land is federal land (hence no tax base) and where most of the residents work hard at maintaining that federal land in such a way that it IS open for public/multiple use, while having to find other ways to finance things like schools, etc. that normally come out of property taxes, I'd say WE are the ones subsidizing the public lands after having been shoved out of them. But hey, Ray, I'm sure your interests in the lands in this county could be more than covered by a few pennies or so. I'd gladly send yours back. And other than your few cents or so, just what HAVE you done to improve the public lands here in Idaho?? Heidi ============================================================ One would think that logic would prevail. But then, if logic did prevail, men would ride sidesaddle. ~ Bob Morris ridecamp.net information: http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/ ============================================================
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