I
have a little time today, and need a break.
So, what to blog about?
The
guilty plea of William Rapfogel, former CEO of the Metropolitan Council on
Jewish Poverty, to stealing about $5 million from widows and orphans? A religious Jewish boy misbehaving. Notwithstanding my contentious issues many
years ago with the Met Council, back during my college days, I'll pass on this
one (for now at least), other than to thank Willie and his co-codefendants for
giving me some belated vindication.
New
York City Comptroller Scott Stringer's latest Report on "The
Growing Gap: New York City’s Housing
Affordability Challenge," which whines about how the cost of rental
housing is rising faster than income? Hey,
Scotty, for many years, you and your liberal ilk before you took pains to make
sure that New York City provided top dollar welfare payouts, and you continue
to give all kinds of entitlements and lagniappes to illegal aliens, criminals,
those who refuse to hold down jobs, and everyone else. So the resulting population increase
(notwithstanding the city's abortion rate) increases the demand for housing
relative to the supply, thereby driving up the cost relative to income. This is Econ 101, nothing to blog about.
The Treasury Inspector
General for Tax Administration's latest
report that the IRS has given monetary rewards to employees who have
disciplinary problems and tax filing issues?
Hey, when I was with the IRS I had neither disciplinary issues nor tax
filing issues. Howcum I didn't get
anything in addition to my salary? This
story already has legs; I have nothing to add other than to state the
obvious: The policy of administering cookies
for bad behavior and electric shocks for good behavior goes a long way towards
explaining the IRS's dysfunctionality.
So what to blog
about? I'll blog about Kareem
Potomont. He's the gangster thug who fired a weapon at
one of his rivals, but in the process, one of the fired bullets struck and
seriously injured Gama
Droiville, a 13-year-old innocent bystander. I note the quote from Potomont's lawyer,
Audrey Thomas, who said that Potomont "said was forced to leave high school in the
eleventh grade due to gang pressure."
THAT is the problem. Those social groups
commonly associated with success in America have long pressured their youth to
STAY in school. Back during my
adolescence years, I had certain behavioral issues in school. One evening, my father came to me to express
his displeasure at one particular incident, noting that he had heard about it from
a neighbor. I said something to the
effect of "Why is it any of her business how I behave in school?"
An uncle of mine, who ended up doing much to prod me onward towards the
straight path of success, chimed in, "When you disrupt the educational
process, then it is everybody's business!" I wouldn't say that my behavior immediately
reformed over night, but Uncle's words did stick with me, have remained to this
day, and did positively influence me.
Gangs pressuring people to drop out of high school? That is the antithesis of affirmative
action! It is DISAFFIRMATIVE ACTION!
Labels: affirmative action, crime, gangs, IRS, William Rapfogel
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