We’ve discussed the frogs that seemed to have recently inhabited Capital Hill here before and I offered some suggerstions of what to do with the money.
Now Joe has come up with a challenge to all of you who haven’t yet decided where you will be relieved of your $$$.
Buy a rifle and ammo for Boomershoot and I’ll give you a free entry into Boomershoot 2009. Limit of one entry per rifle and no more than five free positions will be given away. You must purchase the rifle between now and June 1, 2008. The rifle and ammo must be capable of at least regularly connecting with the boomers at the 375 yard line. This means your ordinary hunting rifle, carbines, and pistol caliber rifles won’t qualify. Heavy barrel AR-15’s will. It should have at least a 4X (10X or greater is recommended) scope on it but I won’t be holding that against you because people have connected with red-dots and iron sights, it’s just not easy. Ammo is going to have to be match grade.
Get on the stick as this is too good a deal for you to miss! Hell, if it is anything like regular Boomershoot sign up, it’ll be gone within a week of the checks being cut.
Switching to spur track on the same topic, I must admit that I didn’t consciously notice it until the Insta-man linked to Matt J. Duffy, but politicians AND the media completely stopped talking about the deficit as soon as the idea for these Ribbate checks popped up. In news reports, the debate questions, etc..
Coincidence? I think not.
And lastly, in a Letter to the Editor, Barry Hughes of Lake Tapps, WA wrote and got printed a LttE that hits on the point and will surely be bringing the Seattle Times some follow-up letters.
I hope everyone who gets an “economic stimulus check” enjoys spending my money. I am one of the “elite” rich people: My wife and I have a combined yearly income of just over $200,000.It took several decades with both of us working hard at our full-time jobs (we are in our mid-40s) and spending hours and hours at night school furthering our education, but we have now made it to the promise land! At least, that’s what many would have you believe. Oh sure, we are always going out for drinks with Biff and Contessa at the Seattle Yacht Club — not!
We are regular people: We work long hours every day, we help our kids with their homework at night, our house is average, our cars are nothing all that special. Once a year we try to take a vacation somewhere fun, and we save 15 percent of our income for retirement.
Bill and Melinda Gates we are not. We don’t get any special tax breaks and we pay much, much more in actual dollars in taxes than a person (or couple) who earns, say, $50,000 a year. Yet for some reason, we are excluded from getting this “tax rebate.”
How dare anyone say that we “don’t need it”! Need has nothing to do with it! If you paid taxes and I paid taxes, why am I the one being excluded? — especially when I may have paid more taxes than you!
This forced redistribution of wealth just galls me. My family is being punished because my wife and I work hard and save our money? How is this fair?
The really sad part of all this is that ultimately all of that “economic stimulus money” is just gonna end up right back in the pockets of the “truly” rich when the checks start getting cashed and the money is quickly spent. Biff and Contessa might just go shopping for a new yacht.
Rest easy, Barry, you white male oppressor. Obamageddon will make sure you get what you are due.
You’re closer to Joe than most, Phil. Does this mean that Joe is sending a message that he doesn’t want tactical/field hunting rifles at Boomershoot? If Boomershoot is going to become primarly a bench-rest show-off day, it’s going to be marginalized as just that.
I wanted to go there and demonstrate with my M14 that an ordinary Joe, with a good scope and proper shooting technique, can connect with 1MOA targets. Pardon me if I think that building the confidence of Ordinary Joes with their Ordinary rifles is FAR more important than building the egos of benchresters with $4,000 and up in their table-mounted weapons.
I had heard that Boomershoot was a fun day to show off your 1MOA talent, not how big a check you can write for a rifle you can’t hump into the field. That’s why I signed up for it. That’s why the two guys I recruited for “Oregon Ratshooters” want to come all the way to Orofino.
Tell me it ain’t so.
The only message I was trying to send was I want to encourage people to obtain the skills and equipment necessary to hit 1 MOA targets at long distances.
Giving away free shooting positions to people that spent money on equipment that can do that was to encourage the acquisition of said equipment and skills. With the right modifications it is my understanding the M14 will be adequate for the job. The only $4000 and up rifles that I have seen at Boomershoot are the .50 BMGs and I think they are wasting their money using those rifles at Boomershoot.