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Fox Point woman bequeaths bulk of $3.1 million estate to Milwaukee County, remainder to state
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^ | 1/23/09 | Steve Schultze

Posted on 01/23/2009 5:05:50 AM PST by Obadiah

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Wow. This is like giving your last full measure of devotion...to the government.
1 posted on 01/23/2009 5:05:51 AM PST by Obadiah
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weird


2 posted on 01/23/2009 5:12:03 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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Hundreds of real charities damaged by Bernie Madeoff, and she leaves millions to the gubmint ... except for the "fees for lawyers and bankers."
By the time all of them get done with it, I'm sure they'll be enough left for a new flower bed in the park (but it'll have to be a small one).
3 posted on 01/23/2009 5:14:01 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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Sounds like this couple lacked imagination, and just couldn’t think of anything worthwhile to spend their money on, either while they were alive or for their estate. Whatever. It’s a free country.


4 posted on 01/23/2009 5:15:32 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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I don’t think she’s in heaven.


5 posted on 01/23/2009 5:19:34 AM PST by Crawdad (Barack Obama hates black people.)
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Its only money.

If she got out a bit more, should would have realized the depression ended years ago, and she could have lived a little better.

I dont think this justifies not going to heaven, but my guess is that by not having children and living as a pauper her whole life she did not experience much of it during her time on earth.


6 posted on 01/23/2009 5:22:35 AM PST by Vermont Lt (I am not from Vermont. I lived there for four years and that was enough.)
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“Sounds like this couple lacked imagination,..”

It really does. Or maybe she made her will when her mental faculties weren’t what they used to be.
You’d think the lawyer who helped make her will would have suggested that she stipulate how the county should spend the money, ie: care for the elderly or something.


7 posted on 01/23/2009 5:27:18 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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It’s her money and she can do with as she wishes but would not have hurt to leave something to her neighbor who hauled her butt all over town to shop. Three million will last about three minutes in the state treasury.


8 posted on 01/23/2009 5:32:58 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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In other words, she saw that the money would go to waste.


9 posted on 01/23/2009 5:33:57 AM PST by popdonnelly (Don't lose sight of your conservative principles.)
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Wow. This is like giving your last full measure of devotion...to the government

What a shame and what a waste. So many people could have been helped by this women money. Now it will just line political hacks pockets and buy votes.


10 posted on 01/23/2009 5:34:52 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Coming to You From the Front Lines of Occupied America)
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In other words, she flushed her money into the sewer.


11 posted on 01/23/2009 5:35:37 AM PST by Da Coyote
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Dying without a will would have had about the same effect.

...or setting fire to the money in the street.


12 posted on 01/23/2009 5:39:52 AM PST by MediaMole
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But her husband made the SAME will!


13 posted on 01/23/2009 5:48:11 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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They sound like finalists in a “Dullest, Most boring couple” contest.


14 posted on 01/23/2009 5:54:22 AM PST by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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It’s a good idea, I mean, the governments of the world have proven over and over again, they’ll spend 3.1 million on worthwhile....things.


15 posted on 01/23/2009 5:55:46 AM PST by demshateGod (the GOP is dead to me)
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She’d have been better off burning the money in a communal bonfire for her neighbors.


16 posted on 01/23/2009 6:00:33 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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“....would not have hurt to leave something to her neighbor who hauled her butt all over town to shop.”

Amen to that but you should have said “her SORRY butt”.


17 posted on 01/23/2009 6:00:47 AM PST by demshateGod (the GOP is dead to me)
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Will the State of Wisconsin have to pay estate/death taxes on the contributions and if they do, which department gets it?


18 posted on 01/23/2009 6:04:07 AM PST by PurpleMan
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Wahlberg said she was shocked to learn of the large estate left by her neighbor - and how she chose to dispose of it.

"I hope the county spends it wisely," she said.

LOL!

19 posted on 01/23/2009 6:13:12 AM PST by iowamark
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“Dullest, Most boring couple

Maybe they did not do much cause they were having sex all the time. Something that is very fun and doesn't cost a thing.

20 posted on 01/23/2009 6:41:59 AM PST by GUNGAGALUNGA
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