Alexander the Grate: recommendation

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…So you would? Hold on. I’d do it automatically. If they insist. I’m not going to wrestle when they’re stuffing the $20 in my pocket. If I see the $20, I say, “Oh, sorry, but my minimum donation I accept — ” [laughter] “I’ll accept that if you can add nine more zeros to it.” [editor’s note: Alexander later told us that he meant to say “add twelve more zeros to it.”] At $20 trillion, maybe I can help with the national debt. That ties into that. That’s my new minimum donation. Better make that $40 [trillion] now because we go through a trillion a year, so have a little hedge on that. So $30 to $40 trillion is my minimum donation. Everything else, I either give to the poor box, or the last one I got was $1, and I put it on the lid of the trash can. There’s a lot of competition, people going over the same cans, but I still manage to feed myself and my fellow omnivore here [James Deutsch]. Last question. Let’s say the DC city government puts you in charge of developing a new program to help NFA people. What would you recommend? What do you think should be done?…

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