August 26, 2007

Ace and The Libertarians

He's been having a back and forth with them over the past few weeks, this time over an issue of a man who got stopped carrying $27K in cash on him...this is a rare occasion where I disagree with Ace.  I think its entirely plausible that the guy's money is totally innocent, and here's why. 

I had a great-grandmother who grew up during the Depression era, and saw banks folding everywhere, and people's savings get wiped out.  She never trusted banks from then on. 

When she was taken to the hospital for cancer treatment(where she spent her last few months), she left her purse with my mother and grandmother in case they needed her IDs for the hospital or other information, plus they were getting the estate ready. 

So they start to clear out the purse, and in it was a fat stack of bills, thousands of dollars worth, they went through it completely, and by the time they had finished doing so, there was about $15,000 and change in it.  Nobody knew about the money, so it was a shock to my mother and grandmother.  They used that pile of money to pay for the funeral arrangements, so the cash is all spent. 


So I guess what I'm saying is, I get the impulse to assume the money was earned through illegal means, but I'm suggesting that isn't necessarily true.

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