Posted on 04/21/2004 5:48:47 AM PDT by stocksthatgoup
"...We don’t want them to get sick from them because George Bush and Dick Cheney think their friends at the energy companies deserve to make a buck at the expense of our kids health—our kids future.”
(Excerpt) Read more at johnkerry.com ...
''We are going to protect our rivers and our bays and our oceans because we want our children to enjoy them. We don’t want them to get sick from them because George Bush and Dick Cheney think their friends at the energy companies deserve to make a buck at the expense of our kids health—our kids future.''
Fun-ny. Esp. considering how filthy Boston Harbor has been historically---The Standells hit from the 60's, Dirty Water, was an ode to the Charles River & Boston Harbor. Poppa' Bush used the filthy BH to highlight Mass. Gov/ Pres Wannabe Mike Dukakis' ''environmental sensitivity''.
As Rush has been saying for years, this is the only thing the demoSCUMs have. If this is all that they have AND there is 7 months left...W is in good shape.
WHAT!?!?!?! We can't protect the girls too??? This is a communist plot to get rid of women!!! I knew it! I knew it!
/sarcasm
With that she kissed my dogs, grabbed a Diet Pepsi for the road and climbed into her SUV for the ride to Newsweek.
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/22886.htm
Still, to understand the Kerry tax situation, you would need to study his 65-year-old wife's returns. But the widow Heinz files separately and adamantly refuses to release her tax records.
What is undisputed is that Kerry's jet-setting lifestyle is completely financed by Teresa Heinz Kerry's late first husband, a Republican senator from Pennsylvania.
His trust funds throw off millions in dividends and capital gains - what liberals often disparage as "unearned income." No such outcry has arisen in the case of Teresa. But even with her stonewalling on the release of her income tax returns, a glimpse into her financial worth is available in her tax bills that are public, for the five mansions she owns:
* On Nantucket Island, for a $9.1 million beachfront "cottage," technically owned by Windy Point Trust, she pays $23,552.09 a year in property taxes.
* In Pittsburgh, she owns a $3.1-million home on Squaw Run Road, a name that would definitely not be tolerated if a Republican lived there. The taxes are $14,632.80.
* In Georgetown, her O Street mansion is worth $4.3 million, and costs her $41,627.14 annually in D.C. property taxes.
* In Boston, she purchased a palace on Beacon Hill with an assessed value of $6.4 million, and was kind enough to put her 60-year-old husband's name on the deed. Annual property taxes: $62,794.08.
* In Idaho, she hobnobs with her fellow Beautiful People in the only county in Idaho to vote for Al Gore in 2000. Her rebuilt barn, "outsourced" from the U.K., is assessed at $2.7l6 million, and her annual real-estate taxes are $30,728.78.
That's close to $175,000 a year in property taxes alone, but Teresa has no cash-flow woes.
Much has been written of the senator's 42-foot Hinckley powerboat, which cost at least $800,000. Less noticed has been Teresa's much more expensive plaything - a Gulfstream V private jet. It's named the Flying Squirrel, not after Bulwinkle's pal Rocky, but after her favorite ski run in Sun Valley.
Aviation industry sources say the Flying Squirrel is worth about $35 million. It's the deluxe model .
"To charter a Gulfstream V costs $5,000 to $6,000 an hour," says one pilot. "Hers has everything - plasma TV, two bathrooms, fancy mahogany and burlwood paneling, gold-plated fixtures."
The only possible aviation upgrade, in other words, would be Air Force One. Which would certainly reduce the Widow Heinz's household expenses.
Maybe then her husband could afford to pay his "fair share" of state income taxes.
Howie Carr is a columnist for the Boston Herald and a nationally-syndicated radio talk-show host
THE ENVIRO WHACKOS DON'T LIVE BY WHAT THEY PREACH, reminds me of the interview Shawn Hannity did with A. Huffington the greeine whacko who flies around in a private plane preaching her green whacko stuff.
He's right! By lowering arsnic level standards in drinking water, it just doesn't taste nearly as good as it did when Clinton was pumping it in! CHILDREN NEED MORE ARSNIC!!!
And Dean at least was a "true believer" type -- he was nuts, but apparently somewhat sincere (like Nader). Kerry just drifts in the wind, saying whatever seems like a good idea at the time... unlike Clinton, though, he can't even muster the conviction to make it sound like the position of the day is worth listening to.
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