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Hi John,

Like you I also am a fat old white guy injineer who really appreciated your Positraction comments on “fighting poverty.” I’m proud to report that I have been a front line soldier fighting in the War On Poverty ever since LBJ declared the war in 1965. I worked!!! Our measure of success in the War on Poverty unfortunately has been how many poor people the gooferment handouts have “helped,” when it really should be measured by how many poor folks were lifted out of poverty and are now productive and contributing members of our society.

I attribute the increasing numbers of poor Americans to the nature of the gooferment handout programs that our greedy politicians keep developing, which are intended to only benefit the politicians who buy votes from the poor with handouts supported by our taxpayer money, in order to create lifetime jobs for the politicians. (This fact alone makes a prima facie case for term limits). The poor are kept only marginally supported with the handouts, just to the point where they are sufficiently satisfied to not be motivated to better their plight by getting better educated and actually working to become independent.

Unfortunately, I believe that American has passed the tipping point to where there are more Americans getting free rides in the wagon than the number of Americans sweating to pull the wagon.

I fear that the existence of fourth and fifth generation welfare clients only demonstrates that this trend will likely continue until there are not enough taxpayers and debt sources available to fund the growing gooferment handout programs, when America will face national bankruptcy because there is no entity on the planet that is large enough and rich enough to bail out America. That is when the “have nots” will begin rioting for their handouts that they have been conditioned to believe are their entitlements as Americans.

That will be when the minority taxpaying portion of the population will give thanks that they can still defend themselves and their stuff from the marauding mobs by exercising their remaining Second Amendment rights. Keep your powder dry and stay locked and loaded.

Lou Apoldo
BCE ’63

[JR: Glad to hear that I'm not the only one concerned. MOLON LABE! It's going to get messy. Just look at Greece!]

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Regarding your Endnote about how politicians make such “smart investments,” every critical American, like us fat old injuneers, knows that America has the best politicians that money can buy. A restaranteur near Pittsburg who regularly displays politically incorrect messages on the large sign in front of his restaurant, once displayed a sign to the effect that we regularly have two politicians who each spend about a billion dollars each on their campaigns to win a job that only paid $400,000. It must have one heck of a great dental plan!

Lou Apoldo
BCE ’63

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Apoldo, Lou (MC1963) 

[JR: Amazing how the politicians become some much richer after "public service". And, folks wonder why ½ the people don't vote. Then are surprised that the other ½ that do, vote for free stuff?]

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John: That watering hole (The Greenleaf?) can’t be for sale for want of business.

I couldn’t agree more with your take on the “Jerks deserve tickets” piece. One of life’s major annoyances.

Happy Advent,

Bob Insull

Insull, Bob (MC1963)

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[JR: Bob, based on what I spent as a wannabe injineer seeking "enlightenment" or "relief from accent torture" (i.e., Calc with Zia or Fields with DOCTOR katanapolisawaztthooey), they should have been endowed for ever like a cemetery for the dreams of youth. LOL! Wryly sad to think of those place going under. But, the College sees them differently. I think I heard the term "den of iniquety" used. I know I looked many times and I never saw an "iniquity", pink elephants, fellow wannabe injineers, future business majors, and Mounties. Ahhh. Good times.]

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John,

The title; “Does Ray Kelly Have the World’s Toughest Job?”

Fortune Magazine October 29, 2012 Page 153.

Ed

Edward J. McEneney 59B

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[JR: Thanks, Ed. Much appreciated. I'll look for it online.]

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John, your Endnote about the senior citizen who helped to take out an armed bad guy with some excellent 165-yard pistol shots provides more proof of why more decent citizens should be allowed to protect themselves and their community with concealed carry permits. Gun laws only seem to help the bad guys who violate the gun laws anyway, by making unarmed decent citizens easier victim targets for the illegally armed bad guys.

Florida proved this recently by relaxing concealed carry laws for decent citizens, and the number of gun crimes dropped to almost half of what they used to be when unarmed decent citizens were easy prey for illegally armed bad guys. Now it is the bad guys who are in fear for their own safety in case the former victim is also armed and could blow away the bad guy. It all seems to add credibility to the saying “I carry a concealed weapon for protection, because a cop is too heavy!”

Lou Apoldo
MCE ’63

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[JR: Well, 165 yards shots are not going to be the norm anytime soon. Least not from me. I particularly like what I call my VD quote. (VD is the keyboard macro I have for it. I have about 300.) “Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose. Someday "We, The Sheeple" will wake up and realize the Dead Old White Guys were very smart and the Gooferment ain't our friend! Just an obese lazy bad servant that needs tight supervision.]

Apoldo, Lou (MC1963) 

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