When I was young - very young - so young I can't remember young (like, maybe 4) I made my first ever consumer purchase. I marched into Kmart - or was it Ames?.. Zayres? - and I counted out the roughly $2.32 (guesstimate) for a Princess Leia figure in her bounty hunter outfit from Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. It even came with the obnoxiously long gun she carried and her full-face helmet.
At the time I had a little wicker basket that I kept change in and I recall the purchase pretty much wiping me out.. $2.32! How times have changed, indeed.
Sometime during the day on Monday, July 26th, 2004
tony asked for money. He said:
today we will find out how long it will take
for the busblog to get an ipod
from its wonderful readers
click the ipod to donate $10 to 20.
A mere day later and he has amassed $170.33 in U.S. funds. Consider this for a moment. Consider how we use money and what it means to us. Consider how much different our perceptions about money and our reality with money is. Consider charity and non-profit organizations penny pinching and consider Enron CEOs stealing millions. Consider Bush's projected
$477 billion dollar deficit.
It hurts me brain just to think of it.
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