A Note From Grandpa

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A Note From Grandpa

John G. Is 63 years old and owns a small business. He's a life-long Republican and sees his dream of retiring next year has all but evaporated. With the stock market crashing and new taxes coming his way, John assumes now that he will work to his dying day.

John has a granddaughter. Ashley is a recent college grad. She drives a flashy hybrid car, wears all the latest fashions, and loves to go out to nightclubs and restaurants. Ashley campaigned hard for Barack Obama. After the election she made sure her grandfather (and all other Republican family members) received a big I told-you-so earful on how the world is going to be a much better place now that her party is taking over.

Having lost both roommates, Ashley recently ran short of cash and cannot pay the rent (again) on her 3 bedroom townhouse... Like she has done many times in the past, she e-mailed her grandfather asking for some financial help.

Here is his reply:

Sweetheart, I received your request for assistance. Ashley, you know I love you dearly and I'm sympathetic to your financial plight. Unfortunately, times have changed. With the election of President Obama, your grandmother and I have had to set forth a bold new economic plan of our own...."The Ashley Economic Empowerment Plan." Let me explain.

Your grandmother and I are life-long, wage-earning tax payers. We have lived a comfortable life, as you know, but we have never had the fancier things like European vacations, luxury cars, etc... We have worked hard and were looking forward to retiring soon. But the plan has changed. Your president is raising our personal and business taxes significantly. He says it is so he can give our hard earned money to other people... Do you know what this means, Ashley? It means less for us, and we must cut back on many business and personal expenses.

You know the wonderful receptionist who worked in my office for more than 23 years? The one who always gave you candy when you came over to visit? I had to let her go last week. I can't afford to pay her salary and all of the government mandated taxes that go with having employees.... Your grandmother will now work 4 days a week to answer phones, take orders and handle the books. We will be closed on Fridays and will lose even more income.

I'm also very sorry to report that your cousin Frank will no longer be working summers in the warehouse. I called him at school this morning. He already knows about it and he's upset because he will have to give up skydiving and his yearly trip to Greenland to survey the polar bears.

That's just the business side of things. Some personal economic effects of Obama's new taxation policies include none other than you. You know very well that over the years your grandmother and I have given you thousands of dollars in cash, tuition assistance, food, housing, clothing, gifts, etc., etc. But by your vote, you have chosen to help others -- not at your expense -- but at our expense.

If you need money now sweetheart, I recommend you call 202-456-1111. That is the direct phone number for the White House. You can also contact the White House here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/%C2%A0;...

You yourself told me how foolish it is to vote Republican... You said Mr. Obama is going to be the People's President, and is going to help every American live a better life. Based on everything you've told me, along with all the promises we heard during the campaign, I'm sure Mr. Obama will be happy to transfer some stimulus money into your bank account. Have him call me for the account number which I memorized years ago.

Perhaps you can now understand what I've been saying all my life: Those who vote for a president should consider the impact on the nation as a whole, and not be just concerned with what they can get for themselves. What Obama supporters don't seem to realize is all of the money he is redistributing to illegal aliens and non-taxpaying Americans (the so-called "less fortunate") comes from tax-paying families.

Remember how you told me, "Only the richest of the rich will be affected"? Well guess what, honey? Because we own a business, your grandmother and I are now considered to be the richest of the rich. On paper, it might look that way, but in the real world, we are far from it..

As you said while campaigning for Obama, some people will have to carry more of the burden so all of America can prosper... You understand what that means, right? It means that raising taxes on productive people results in them having less money; less money for everything, including granddaughters.

I'm sorry, Ashley, but the well has run dry. The free lunches are over... I have no money to give you now. So, congratulations on your choice for "change." For future reference, I encourage you to try and add up the total value of the gifts and cash you have received from us, just since you went off to college, and compare it to what you expect to get from Mr. Obama over the next 4 (or 8) years. I have not kept track of it, Ashley. It has all truly been the gift of our hearts.

Remember, we love you dearly.... but from now on you'll need to call the number mentioned above. Your "Savior" has the money we would have given to you. Just try and get it from him.

Good luck, sweetheart.

Love, Grandpa

[BlueStateSaint]

H5 given . . . and I'll steal it later.

[franksolich]

Damn, that is good.

[vesta111]

Damn, that is good.

Her replay,------ dear grand pa . it seems you are getting old timers disease,you know how much I love you and how much I appreciate the favors you have done for me in the past.

All those years you saw to my well fare,, paying my way through school and   never   once though of me working to help out on summer vacation.    You saw to my getting a good job by your own friends  and saw to it i had a home and comfort at no price to me. You were a great grand pa , paid for my 3 abortions and helped support the druggies I moved in.   

Not my fault I now am in need of your support, and you refuse to help me out.    How can you do this to me,  I depend on you to keep my life style as you paid for  and now you cry poor mouth at me.  So what about me, I really do not care about you, it is the Money you gave to me, -------You are a greedy old man that thinks only for them self.     
   

[BlueStateSaint]

Her replay,------ dear grand pa . it seems you are getting old timers disease,you know how much I love you and how much I appreciate the favors you have done for me in the past.

All those years you saw to my well fare,, paying my way through school and   never   once though of me working to help out on summer vacation.    You saw to my getting a good job by your own friends  and saw to it i had a home and comfort at no price to me. You were a great grand pa , paid for my 3 abortions and helped support the druggies I moved in.   

Not my fault I now am in need of your support, and you refuse to help me out.    How can you do this to me,  I depend on you to keep my life style as you paid for  and now you cry poor mouth at me.  So what about me, I really do not care about you, it is the Money you gave to me, -------You are a greedy old man that thinks only for them self.     
   

 

That's 15 seconds of my life that I should have spent packing some stuff for the move.

[Chris_]

That's 15 seconds of my life that I should have spent packing some stuff for the move.

You should know better than that by now.

[vesta111]

You should know better than that by now.

Well I have seen this before in my own family, Grand parents that try to make up for mistakes with their own children and go on to do all they can for their children's children.     Problem, the kids turned out fine regardless of you mistakes.   Their children however are spoiled rotten by YOU.

Mixing generations is one heck of a mess. 

Grand child comes to you crying that that their parents locked them in their room for 2 days.    You become outraged and ask them not the parents why this was.    Grand Child tells you the had an accident in the back yard and started a small fire.  So off you go yelling about the treatment of your Grand Child, until it comes to light the darling had poured lighter fluid on the family cat.   

What to do here but to make up excuses for why that child did such a thing. 

I tell you as we live longer all the generations head butt each other.    Now the G grandparents step in here to interfear with a family raising children .   One can warn them about a child, they will not listen, they refuse to believe the parents or grandparents about their treasure.   So they listen to the child and wake up one morning to find the child has taken their bank account away, gone with the things that mean the most to you. [ Where's my Piano ]