Seriously, that I would have to explain the irony of trying to get people to think about one portion of this Nation's debt management. I would like to emphasize that the taxpayer focus is not about idolizing an entrepreneur here but focusing the seriousness on keeping such computer systems up and running, including the monthly bills for this electrical venture. So when I hear yesterday that budgets have to be cut, like education and such, that the tax revenue is stretched thin, my recently enlightened guess now is that it was successfully managed by someone at Microsoft. Just how much of the taxpayer budget goes into keeping our successful teachers and politicians at work with their computers? Seriously, the Microsoft aps are old news and new operating systems are bells and whistles, nothing actually innovative has come out in ten years. But tell me how much taxpayer generosity has recently been alloted to the many government and school programs to achieve the success that the Nation aspires. I assume that pay cuts, home foreclosures, and increasing energy costs are considered successes. I simply see the donations of the Gates Foundation as equivalent to what the taxpayer has paid and thus can be thanked too, that the money symbolically went from taxpayer pockets to choice charity of the Gates Foundation. By the way Dave... a 2' X3' chalkboard lasts a lifetime and costs about $20 on Amazon today, the basic computer costs a few hundred at Walmart.com and lasts an average of three years, not including the specialized applications like the suggested retail Office package price of $279.99. Oh I get it, the old school entrepreneurs are laughing at Mr. Microsoft all the way to the bank, I mean the taxpayers.