Still Here
Posted by: “Carmine Vaccarino”
Fri May 2, 2008 7:44 am (PDT)
Hi,
This is Carmine Vaccarino, BEE 1957.
Received your email seeking “intelligent life” at the other end of the keyboard. Pretty hard to find this in today’s society. I’ve become a cynic but I see remedial math and English courses for college freshmen, liberal thinking that says abortion and euthanasia is ok, 25% of high school female students having STDs, students in high school and college who believe they are entitled to a grade of A or B for just showing up, and other signs of entitlement and liberalism. You got me started!
However, at the ripe old age of 72, I am still enjoying life. I live in Queens New York with my wife Carole. I’m an active Fourth Degree member of the Knights of Columbus, an active member in my parish, and love traveling and visiting my grandchildren and the world.
I am an insurance agent with the Knights of Columbus and enjoy my work. My time is still basically my own. Incidently, if there is anyone out there who is interested in joining the Knights and becoming an agent, contact me.
Regards to all my classmates.
Carmine Vaccarino
Tel: 917-226-3339
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[JR: I'm only a 68BEEE, (paid extra for that Electronics E), and agree with your assessment. I believe that a Secular Progressive fascist / socialist movement captured our education system. Horace Mann led the adoption of the Prussian education system in Massachusetts in the 1850s. It spread like wildfire. Mann is often considered "the father of American public education". Unfortunately for us, and know to many of the then elite, the Prussian education system, which is virtually unchanged from its roots, was designed to make cannon fodder and factory workers that could be easily led by the elite. What you are reporting is the result of that remarkable German Engineering. And it ain't a BMW. IMHO the American Catholic Church, and others rolled over and played dead. They let their children be kidnapped by a runaway State. Look to the European history of the great tension between Church and King. When the King oppressed, the people used the Church to balance. Liberalism once meant moving from an autocrat to a laize faire human rights society. When the elite looked at post-revolutionary America free, energetic, and uncontrollable, they "knew better". Since then it has been a parade down to perdition. Government is a parasite on humanity. I can't find one redeeming aspect of it. Now we are supposed to worship the godless State who provides all things. I thought the Communists lost the Cold War? Unfortunately the chickens will come home to roost, with dire consequences, for all of us. Maybe we won't see the 'fun'. I hope I won't. History teaches us that those periods are very bad experiences.]
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