Posted on 09/13/2004 10:47:00 AM PDT by Feiny
LOVE your new tagline!
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I suspect some of each.
As many as Oprah has.
I believe most of Oprah's audience are Democrats.
Maybe they will change when the IRS sends them a big tax bill.
She could have at least paid the recipients' tax on the gift. But then the recipients would have to pay tax on the gift of the paid tax bill! Cheapskates, Oprah and GM all around! A conspiracy to enrich the IRS, if you axed me!
So, what did Pontiac say when you called to ask them to donate 276 cars that you could give away to your fans?
Who wants to bet that 90% of the recipients will be stunned to find out they owe the IRS about $8,000 come tax day?
Looks like a nice car. Of course, carrying costs for a new car are pretty high. If you insure a car like this for comp and collision in New Jersey, and you have a less-than-perfect insurance rating, you could expect to pay $250 a month for insurance alone.
Still, a generous gesture by Oprah. Hopefully some of the recipients will have the savvy to sell the car back to Pontiac and buy a good, reliable used car that will only cost $50 a month to insure...
I can't believe it. Just as I'm reading this, Rush is talking about it. As usual, FR is ahead of the curve, even El Rushbo!
The cars, which retail for £15,500, were donated by Pontiac.
... another couple had almost 400,000 miles on their two vehicles.
Their time and money wasn't donated by anyone.
Not to doubt you but I grew up in Appalachia and the overwhelming majority had plenty to eat and I never saw anyone with shoes more than a couple of years old. Sure there were poor people but that was the exception rather than the norm.
In a related story, Bill Gates gave away 2,760,000 copies of Windows XP to an audience of Hackers.
That has always been a thing for me. The Appalachian folks who truly are pretty much stuck in a crappy place--they don't have the oppurtunity when it comes to infrastructure alone that inner city folks who are supposedly poor do. I've never seen any so dirt poor, not even the vaunted inner city, as those who live in Appalachia.
Yes, she is an extremely generous woman. I wish she'd get off the new age stuff. And I do appreciate her generosity. She has a good heart.
The line about Pontiac donating them was NOT in the story I read (my post 4). The story was I first read was from Verizon.....so I googles to find paper that had posted it for a good url.
I wonder why the Verizon story didn't include that bit on info????
One thing you have to say about Oprah: she is using her riches the way a lot of us wish we could. How fun it would be to be able to give decent poor people a surprise great chance at life. How fun it would be to give an audience a new car each. I think it would be more fun to do that than to mindlessly collect junk yourself.
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