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No doubt that if everyone like you, Frances, gave 1% of your salary, those women would have a heck of a lot more than if every football player gave 1% of his salary. The footballers may make a lot more money than you, but there are a LOT more people like you than there are footballers.

Of course, no one ever thinks they should be the one to give the money. Socialist ideas are too entrenched nowadays.

Socialist ideas such as the one proposed in the above post Paul?

Shalom

I guess Frances missed these pages on the NFL site:

http://www.jointheteam.com/about/commissioner.asp

http://www.jointheteam.com/about/history.asp

BTW, I'm sure NFL players give away much more then 1% of their income to taxes, which provide programs as the author suggests and many more govt. programs. On top of that many are involved in charitable donations.

Where do I sign up?

I wanna new tahoe...

players already have charities...its like a requirement when you sign the contract.

emotion aside, I think the battered women fundraisers need to be in the pit and fight for the same monies that children's hospitals, sally struthers, make-a-wish and the rest of the groups fight for. If you aren't raking in as much as the others, change your strategy.

Paul,
Your comments in your first paragraph are excellent.

Of course, this has to be the most idiotic post yet:

"BTW, I'm sure NFL players give away much more then 1% of their income to taxes, which provide programs as the author suggests and many more govt. programs."

Totally missed the point of discussion.

You just can't help yourself Demon Deacon. You see my name and cannot resist launching a barb, even with a rather "tame" topic as compared to others.

You missed the point of the statement.

The "most idiotic post yet"?

REALLY????

Darryl,

The proposal in the LTE isn't quite a socialist proposal. The writer is talking about voluntary donations from the footballers. However, the fact that she calls solely upon them to donate, just because they're rich, has very socialistic underpinnings. It's absurd to single out football players. Why didn't she call on everyone who can afford to spare a little money to donate? It's most likely because she's a socialist and thinks the rich are somehow obligated to the non-rich.

(for nittyman)

here's idiotic: i have buttsnakes. ain't too sure where they came from.

how do you get rid of the damn things? the eddy pull of the flush only makes them tangly and screaming.

will someone dismiss my immodest pose and fire-up a weed-whacker?

buttsnakes...

Good point Paul, why just football players? Just because her husband was playing football? If he were playing basketball would she have called on basketball players to pony up? Hockey anyone?

If I were to single out a group for the specific cause she illustrates, it would be rap "artists" (I use the term artists lightly). They are the ones who make money from denigrating women.

Grown men sitting around playing video games.

Atari 2600's were cool. Everything else is style over substance. :)

Paul, could you point me to the sentence in this LTTE where the author wants football players to give 1% of their salary because they are rich? I missed Ms. Webb saying anything about football players being rich. She only noted the salaries.

What about your socalist proposal Paul? No comments on that one yet, why not?

And for the record, a portion ($20) of EVERY marriage license issued in NC goes toward Domestic Violence Center Fund [G.S.161-10(a)(2), G.S.50B-9, G.S.161-11.2]. And $5 from each license goes to Child Abuse. Just wanted that information to be noted for reference to all.

Shalom

Hey Darryl,

Co-worker of mine went and got a marriage license today and said it cost him $51 so where's that extra money going? Could it be TLH's pockets?

An valid point, Darryl.

If the average NFL player (and NBA player, for that matter) has the brain power of, say, a Mike Tyson, whose salary for just a few minutes of "entertainment" was in the tens of millions of dollars, they, like he, may be in debt up to their eyeballs. Tyson earned over $400 million in his career ... and at last report, he was $34 million in debt. (How did he DO that??)

Still, I do believe, as I suspect Mr. Elledge does, that Mrs. Webb singled out footballers because of their immense wealth ... no matter how fleeting said wealth may be. Thus, the idea of a "gift" of 1% of their salary ... probably in the form of a paycheck deduction BEFORE they get their hands on it, hmmm?

Darryl asks and says:

"Paul, could you point me to the sentence in this LTTE where the author wants football players to give 1% of their salary because they are rich? I missed Ms. Webb saying anything about football players being rich. She only noted the salaries."

The implication is obvious, Darryl.

"What about your socalist proposal Paul? No comments on that one yet, why not?"

Where did I make a proposal, Darryl, socialist or otherwise? I see only statements and questions which are critiques of her proposal.

There are two places I can identify that you are probably mistaking to be proposals. The first paragraph I wrote beginning, "No doubt..." is not a proposal. There are simply two informational statements there. And this...

"Why didn't she call on everyone who can afford to spare a little money to donate?"

...is a question, not a proposal.

Darryl:
"Paul, could you point me to the sentence in this LTTE where the author wants football players to give 1% of their salary because they are rich? I missed Ms. Webb saying anything about football players being rich. She only noted the salaries."

I think she was pointing out that the salaries were HIGH SALARIES. Many times, people with HIGH SALARIES are considered RICH. Just to clear things up.

Paul, seems re-reading one's posts is in order; here is the proposal I was referencing to which it seems is selectively forgotten, "No doubt that if everyone like you, Frances, gave 1% of your salary, those women would have a heck of a lot more than if every football player gave 1% of his salary."

Now, try and play it off calling it a statement or question or whatever. I see it as offering a different proposal than that of Ms. Webb. Of course, I know that anything socialist would never come from your lips/keyboard. So, I will allow those who read these blogs to decide. It is amazing how it took so long to respond. If nothing else, I am tenacious!

I also like how you are able to ascertain the implication/s of Ms. Webb's LTTE. Are you Ms. Webb's agent?

Shalom

Shalom

Darryl says:

"Now, try and play it off calling it a statement or question or whatever. I see it as offering a different proposal than that of Ms. Webb."

Nope. I was pointing out the silliness of her singling out a small group of people and proposing that they donate instead of her proposing that everyone donate who is able to do so. Nowhere did *I* propose that ANYONE do so.

"Of course, I know that anything socialist would never come from your lips/keyboard."

Nothing advocating the imposition of socialism on others will ever come from my lips or keyboard, but if anyone wants to live under socialism voluntarily, I say go for it.

Spin, Spin, Spin.....Stop it Paul, you're making me extremely dizzy!

"If you want something, you should have to pay for it yourself. It's simply wrong to take people's money for your benefit." I guess you've never driven/rode on a public roadway have you Paul?

Spin, Spin, Spin!

Shalom

"Spin, Spin, Spin.....Stop it Paul, you're making me extremely dizzy!"

You should work on that.

"I guess you've never driven/rode on a public roadway have you Paul?"

Yes, I have. And I paid for it. I didn't have any choice. Meantime, I'm fighting the existence of public roads.