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Parents, please educate your kids on the value of the dollar

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Bateluer

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http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/...nh-twins-suggest-debt-crisis-fix/#?hpt=us_bn4

PELHAM, N.H. -- A couple of kids from New Hampshire think they have a simple solution to the country's budget crisis.

Nine-year-old twins Anthony and Zachary Genikos sent a letter to President Obama suggesting that if all the kids in America sent a dollar, it could fix the budget.

Enclosed in the letter was two dollars.

“They have huge hearts,” the boys’ mother, Dina Smith, said. “They're so generous generally anyway, so it didn't really surprise me that they wanted to do this, but it warms your heart.”

She said the boys got the idea while watching the news with their grandma.
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My parents would have slapped me if I'd tried something that idiotic, and that was 20 years ago. US debt has kinda, you know, increased a bit since then.
 
the national debt breakdown to each CITIZEN is what, 60k? What if we did include children? maybe they'd only have to send in 26k
 
Depending on your definition of a kid, $50,000,000 !~ $3,000,000,000,000. That kid ows about 60,000 more dollars. Could you imagine if his parents put 60,000 dollar bills in his room and said, "this is what it would actually take. Do you want to keep it or send it to the government?"
 
You're bitching out a kid with no income who generously donates a dollar to the government to help pay down a debt that he personally has done nothing to incur? Fuck the value of a dollar, your parents should have taught you basic human decency. Of course it's not going to make a difference in the long run, but the point is the child is giving what meager wealth he has to help pay down our national burden. Good for him (them, I guess... crazy twins).
 
dont worry kid, when you get to working age you'll be giving the government lots of your dollars.

obama's glad that he got them to start early
 
PricklyPete said:
Well at least it might help out the model of government efficiency: the post office.
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You mean the government organization that is required by law to deliver a piece of mail from Maine to Hawaii for 44 cents? I'm not sure people would like a more "efficient" postal service, because it'd mean a much bigger portion of the country wouldn't have home mail delivery.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
You're bitching out a kid with no income who generously donates a dollar to the government to help pay down a debt that he personally has done nothing to incur? Fuck the value of a dollar, your parents should have taught you basic human decency. Of course it's not going to make a difference in the long run, but the point is the child is giving what meager wealth he has to help pay down our national burden. Good for him (them, I guess... crazy twins).
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I totally agree. Me, being 15, this is a generous thing to do. I dont have a job, i pay for my own clothes (and computer parts) on a verylow income (10 bucks per week for mowing my lawn and some hockey game refering). If your son or daughter did this, would you bitch at them? or think that it was a generous idea?
 
Atomic Playboy said:
You're bitching out a kid with no income who generously donates a dollar to the government to help pay down a debt that he personally has done nothing to incur? Fuck the value of a dollar, your parents should have taught you basic human decency. Of course it's not going to make a difference in the long run, but the point is the child is giving what meager wealth he has to help pay down our national burden. Good for him (them, I guess... crazy twins).
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So, how much extra did you contribute on your tax return?
 
T_Yamamoto said:
I totally agree. Me, being 15, this is a generous thing to do. I dont have a job, i pay for my own clothes (and computer parts) on a verylow income (10 bucks per week for mowing my lawn and some hockey game refering). If your son or daughter did this, would you bitch at them? or think that it was a generous idea?
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The kids gave away money they (probably) got from their parents. Sounds like a perfect analogy to the government. Give away money that you don't have.
 
spidey07 said:
So, how much extra did you contribute on your tax return?
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I was commending the children on taking what I considered to be a noble action. Am I only allowed to commend people on the goodness of their deeds if I did the same thing myself? How does that make any sense? Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are giving the vast majority of their wealth to charity after they die; should I not be allowed to commend their actions without giving up the vast majority of my meager income as well? Given that the OP and several other people in this thread were belittling the actions taken by these children, I figured I should lend my voice in support of their actions. But you're right, since I didn't pay additional tax to the government last year, I'm just a hypocrite. Fuck those kids. How dare they try to be more noble than me.
 
I had a woman in one of my classes suggest the same thing; if every person contributed just a dollar we could erase the deficit. This wasn't a kid, this was an adult who clearly had no idea what she was talking about.
 
gorcorps said:
Fucking government... they figured out how to get nine year olds to pay taxes.
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I'd use the opportunity to teach the kid that he earned that money via his work and as such it belongs to him and him alone. That lesson would go a lot farther to help him.
 
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