I recently listened to Fox News Channel anchors Bill O’Reilly and Chris Wallace. They were vehemently bashing “income equality” and “taking from the rich to give to the poor.” Their foolish premise was that “education, self-motivation and self-determination were the keys to prosperity.”
Let me pass along just two points to these fools. First, by definition, full employment is 4 percent unemployment. (Sounds like there may not be enough jobs for all the well-educated, self-motivated and self-determined citizens of this great democratic nation.)
Second, in 1958, I was a well-paid, welleducated electrical engineer, and I was drafted into the U.S. Army. As a private, my salary was $78.30 with free food and board, and I was expected to give up my life to protect the rich and all. Tell me — who was most important? I say that I, and all the military, deserved a millionaire’s salary. If they say that America could not afford to pay all of its military a millionaire’s salary, then I submit two options — send only the rich to war or eliminate all the military.
My wife gets upset when I listen to these foolish news anchors, but as a military officer, I was trained to find out as much as I could about the enemy. Otherwise, I or my soldiers could get wounded or killed.
Avery W. Grant
Long Branch