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To: 1Peter3v14
That's mighty generous of you to give away someone else's hard earned money!
12 posted on 04/06/2005 10:14:30 AM PDT by Bigh4u2
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To: Bigh4u2
That's when you see the most generosity-- when it is with other people's money.

I had a government job where my boss arranged for his staff to be very well paid per hour of work. I can be pretty sure that he would not have been quite as generous if it had been a private partnership and our pay had come out his partnership share of earnings. He might have paid us as much, but he would have granted us less vacation time than the government organization granted us and we would have had to work with greater intensity.

This observation does not mean anything negative about anyone, it is just an observation on human nature and incentives. It is so much easier to be generous with someone else's money, particularly when they are taxpayers or rich people.

26 posted on 04/06/2005 11:06:33 AM PDT by Montfort (The Democrat Party -- The Party of Death)
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