At 08:05 AM 4/18/97 -0400, you wrote: >If we paid off our debt first, I would agree with you, but >spending more monies now, and leaving all this debt to our >children, is not my idea of being the right thing to do. >Billy Baird ([log in to unmask]) Research dollars spent now will be primarily for our children, our children's children, etc. Many of us are too old to get much benefit from current or future medical research, but we are the primary beneficiaries today of medical research from the 1920 - 1970 era. We should not be so greedy as to deny the possible benefits of research to those in the following generations. And here's to long "ons" and short "offs" WILL JOHNSTON 4049 OAKLAND SCHOOL ROAD SALISBURY, MD 21804-2716 410-543-0110 Pres A.P.D.A. DelMarVa Chapter