Before you vote

Think about this (This was sent to me, it is unverified)

Food for thought..........

Most of us haven't thought about this -- no matter how much we like or
dislike John Kerry. Even an estimate of this cost is staggering.

If elected, you and I (or those of us who actually pay taxes) will pay
upkeep and secret service protection for five Kerry mansions here in the
United States plus those he and his wife own abroad. It is good to be
John F. Kerry...the F stands for Forbes in case you ever wondered. He is
one of the richest senators in government and he married even richer.
Their properties certainly reflect their opulent lifestyle. When someone
is elected president, the Secret Service has to protect this person and
family as well as their property - for as long as the president and his
spouse lives!

1. Beacon Hill, Boston $6.9 million

As mentioned, the Kerry's have five US properties and several foreign
properties. The cost to run one of these homes for a year is more than
upper middle income Americans could afford, even if the rent was free,
and all you had to pay was the water, gas & electric bills (we won't
mention ground keepers, maintenance, pool, cooks and house keepers).

2. Fox Chapel, PA $3.7 million (this is their "shanty")

If Kerry becomes president each property requires staffed secret service
security 24 hours a day. Security improvements to each home will come at
tax payer expense. Even if the Kerry's never use all the properties -
they will be retrofitted -- just in case they drop by for a weekend.
Facilities for the secret service agents must also be provided on each
property. Who do you think will pay for this? We pay! This takes all the
expense off Kerry and puts it on us.

Bill Clinton is paying for his New York manor house by charging the
government monthly rent for the required secret service facility. The
monthly rent is nearly three times more than his mortgage payment. So we
the tax payers are buying his house and he pockets the extra money from
the rent on the secret service facility. Then he gets to write off the
interest on his mortgage. Well, he was broke from defending his immoral
skullduggery and his wife's little scandals, so maybe we should feel
sorry for poor old Slick Willie.


3. Georgetown, Washington D.C. $4.7 million

4. Ketchum, Idaho $4.92 million

What does it cost to staff one property in terms of secret service
agents? Let's just talk about his American properties. Each property
would require
5 agents per 6 hour shift 4 times a day 365 days a year for the rest of
Kerry's life and however long his widow might live. In addition, we pay
to house and feed these agents at each property for the duration. Do the
math. Five properties requiring five agents per shift, times four
shifts. That is
20 agents per day per property, 365 days per year. Lets say each agent
receives a salary of about $60K (this doesn't include insurance,
retirement, etc.; add 30% of salary for that). There will also be
vehicles, repairs, gas, and other miscellaneous costs. Straight salary
and benefits for 100 agents for one year would cost $7,800,000. We can
only guess at the cost of retrofitting each property, building the
facility necessary to house the agents and the monthly rent for each
facility. ! ! ! ! ! ! !

5. Nantucket, MA $9.18 million


~~ On the other hand, George Bush owns one house - the one at his ranch
in Crawford, Texas ~~

Again, who pays? You and I pay. I don't mind one property; heck I
wouldn't even complain about two - but five in the U.S. and those
abroad? Perhaps Mr. and Mrs. Kerry should offer to foot the bill for all
but two of these properties if they want me to consider his candidacy.
Does it make sense to spend this kind of money on his excessive life
style when he and Mrs. Heinz-Kerry can better afford it??

Paying for the Kerry mansions is only a small part of my concern about
this man sitting in the White House. Tax and spend Kerry - that's his
party motto. I'd rather see the money we'd spend protecting his fancy
properties go toward health care, our military and homeland security.
Which America does he live in?? Not the same one I live in - that's for
sure!

Please pass the mustard; do America a favor and pass this to your
friends. Let's keep Bush a resident of the White House rather than spend
millions and millions to protect Kerry's preferred lifestyle and opulent
properties. We'd save an incredible amount of money for more deserving
programs. Oh, and viva Del Monte Ketchup!

"Joe English" <jenglish@wisperhome.com> wrote in message
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> Think about this (This was sent to me, it is unverified)

You guys are getting real desperate, we can plainly see. Worried?

Joe English <jenglish@wisperhome.com> wrote:

> Think about this (This was sent to me, it is unverified)

Bunch of debunked BS....

http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/secret.asp


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"Mike Pearson <see .sig>" <nojunk@this_address.com> wrote in message
news:1gmgxgg.1704isl95fha8N%nojunk@this_address.co m...
> Joe English <jenglish@wisperhome.com> wrote:
>
>> Think about this (This was sent to me, it is unverified)
>
> Bunch of debunked BS....
>
> http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/secret.asp

"The only thing sillier than that notion that taxes would have to be raised
to protect a putative President Kerry is the suggestion that the cost of
Secret Service protection should be a factor in voters' choosing who should
serve as President of the United States."

But Republicans' arguments certainly are getting sillier by the minute as we
count down the remaining pre-Election Day hours with Bin Laden alive and
well, ever-increasing military casualties in the unnecessary war in Iraq,
more revelations about Halliburton's secret misdealings, missing explosives,
and the obvious fact that our president is a dumbshit. No wonder the
undecideds are switching to Kerry at a breakneck pace.

Greg Mossman wrote:
> "Mike Pearson <see .sig>" <nojunk@this_address.com> wrote in message
> news:1gmgxgg.1704isl95fha8N%nojunk@this_address.co m...
>
>>Joe English <jenglish@wisperhome.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Think about this (This was sent to me, it is unverified)
>>
>>Bunch of debunked BS....
>>
>>http://www.snopes.com/politics/kerry/secret.asp
>
>
> "The only thing sillier than that notion that taxes would have to be raised
> to protect a putative President Kerry is the suggestion that the cost of
> Secret Service protection should be a factor in voters' choosing who should
> serve as President of the United States."
>
> But Republicans' arguments certainly are getting sillier by the minute as we
> count down the remaining pre-Election Day hours with Bin Laden alive and
> well, ever-increasing military casualties in the unnecessary war in Iraq,
> more revelations about Halliburton's secret misdealings, missing explosives,
> and the obvious fact that our president is a dumbshit. No wonder the
> undecideds are switching to Kerry at a breakneck pace.
>
>
I thought it was good reading, I told you it was unverified.

"Joe English" <jenglish@wisperhome.com> wrote in message
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> I thought it was good reading, I told you it was unverified.

But you didn't tell us it was completely fabricated. Your information
source is suspect and that tarnishes the credibility of anything you have to
say.

Greg Mossman wrote:
> "Joe English" <jenglish@wisperhome.com> wrote in message
> news:7d396$41841f8b$ce504822$1315@allthenewsgroups .com...
>
>
>>I thought it was good reading, I told you it was unverified.
>
>
> But you didn't tell us it was completely fabricated. Your information
> source is suspect and that tarnishes the credibility of anything you have to
> say.
>
>
I learned from you

"Joe English" <jenglish@wisperhome.com> wrote in message
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> Greg Mossman wrote:
> > "Joe English" <jenglish@wisperhome.com> wrote in message
> > news:7d396$41841f8b$ce504822$1315@allthenewsgroups .com...
> >
> >
> >>I thought it was good reading, I told you it was unverified.
> >
> >
> > But you didn't tell us it was completely fabricated. Your information
> > source is suspect and that tarnishes the credibility of anything you
have to
> > say.
> >
> >
> I learned from you

Touché

Greg Mossman wrote:

> "Joe English" <jenglish@wisperhome.com> wrote in message
> news:7d396$41841f8b$ce504822$1315@allthenewsgroups .com...

>>I thought it was good reading, I told you it was unverified.

> But you didn't tell us it was completely fabricated. Your information
> source is suspect and that tarnishes the credibility of anything you have to
> say.

Sounds like Kerry... tarnished and suspect.

Joe English wrote:

> Greg Mossman wrote:
>
>> "Joe English" <jenglish@wisperhome.com> wrote in message
>> news:7d396$41841f8b$ce504822$1315@allthenewsgroups .com...
>
>>> I thought it was good reading, I told you it was unverified.

>> But you didn't tell us it was completely fabricated. Your information
>> source is suspect and that tarnishes the credibility of anything you
>> have to say.
>>
> I learned from you

That deserves a

BINGO!