@Joker & PolAmKrakow,
Merely to recount a once known story of former NY State Gov.
Al Smith, erstwhile fresh-faced Irish kid from the Lower East Side,
once given a cabinet tour of NYU Law Library while still Governor,
who abruptly remarked in his thick Lower East Side "brogue",
HEY, LOOKY THERE AT THAT YOUNG MAN WITH HIS LAW BOOKS,
STUDYIN' HOW TO COLLECT A BRIBE AND CALL IT A FEE!
Wake up and smell the coffee, guys! If getting ahead were only a matter of application
and hard work (of which most people out there possess but plenty!!), there'd be practically
no homelessness and nearly as little unemployment.
Everybody knows, especially you two, that EVERYONE needs just a little push in order to
ease the application process - pass a little envelope at collection time to Father McKinnon
who then passes it along to his Monsignor and we're in business.
Y'all know it, y'all simply won't admit it....as with most Americans.
The history of success in American labor can often be reduced to a little, one-syllable word, PULL!!
As for myself, rather than a jealous meltdown, I'm the ultimate recipient of everything I've just been
posting. Mom and Dad joined a shul right around when I was born, paid into the synagogue and
it facilitated any number of later opportunities, among them, securing a job so as I could marry:-)