WILL WEALTH RE-DISTRIBUTION WORK? - Just A Minute for Monday 10-27-08

            Howdy and Good Monday to you all –

 

            We had an interesting weekend. Several things occupied our attention – One was a visit to the South Carolina’s Governor’s Mansion on Saturday. Gov. Jim Edwards, and Greenville County GOP Chairman back around the 60’s Greg Shorey, have been kicking around an idea for preserving the history of the SC Republican Party dating from the days in which it was rumored to be able to hold a county convention in a phone booth. It was a gathering of “Carolina Pioneers” – I think that’s the informal title of a group that numbered about 300 according to unofficial estimates.

 

            In any case it was a time of convivial cordiality and recognition – not of ‘old’ but of ‘long-familiar’ faces we have seen in party conventions and actions across the State. (I’m one of the younger members you might guess. J -- and Barbara too…) So we enjoyed that fellowship and all the effort that was put forth. In addition I’d like to mention Roger Milliken, who is very deserving of the informal honor of having been the person most responsible for the restoration of the GOP to a genuine two-party system in South Carolina since the days of reconstruction. I won’t go into the details. He’s a very modest man who’s reluctant to step into the spotlight – but who does deserve a huge amount of credit and appreciation for making governance better in South Carolina.

 

            Barbara and I also had the sad but joyous occasion to re-visit the area where we lived for seven years before moving back to the Greenville area – Rutherford County in North Carolina. The sad part of the visit was one of our neighbors suffered the loss of a grandchild – Travis Kent – in a car accident last Wednesday and the memorial and funeral service was Sunday. So… again we saw old friends – sad for the loss, but joyous in knowing Travis is now with the Lord. He was a skilled pilot in aircraft and helicopters – but was an unskilled passenger – wearing his seatbelt – but still the victim of too much speed on a too sharp turn. In any case we were glad to be a part of comforting the family and seeing other friends.

 

            Today’s program is a true story – I’d like to have reaction to it. It’s where the policy meets the person in reality – and puts a face and place on what happens when rhetoric is – well let’s say unsupervised.. Unfortunately that’s often true of most of what you hear in political campaigns.

 

            Cordially, IN HIM

            Jack

 

http://www.jebcovoice.net/audio/jama10-27-08.mp3

 

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“JUST A MINUTE”

WILL WEALTH RE-DISTRIBUTION WORK?

Just A Minute – Reality overtakes rhetoric when Obama’s ‘spread the wealth’ is tried in an “unscientific but true” experiment from a trusted source in Florida.

A young lady – we’ll call her Julia – dinning in a favorite restaurant near Disney World, found her usual server once again wearing his “Obama ‘08” tie –signaling once more his political affiliation. At the meal’s conclusion when Julia got the check she informed the server she was going to practice what Obama was preaching – so she told him as he “stood there in disbelief … “I [am] going to re-distribute [your] tip to someone I deem more in need -- the homeless guy I saw outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.”  She continued: “I went outside, gave the homeless guy ten dollars as I’d decided he could use the money more -- and told him to thank the server inside.”

          She observes: “The homeless guy was grateful … but the waiter was pretty angry.” And concludes – “I guess the redistribution of wealth is easier to swallow in concept than in application.”        

          We’ll do what we can to see Mr. Obama is duly informed.

<> I’m Jack Buttram

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