Gross National Product Shrinks

I am reminiscing about my high school graduation year it keeps coming up in current economic statistics.

"he GNP has not been this low since 1963." It was a good year for me. Graduating from High School with full scholarships to three universities. In July of that year I was packing my gear to try a school which pioneered the trimester program. Three four month sessions running all year round. Was quite a challenge. I don't remember the economy being a problem. I only had to worry about room and board. Seven hundred for two semesters. My summer job let me salt away over three thousand. I was rich.

The war in Vietnam was killing my friends but I had a number that would never be called. Young and foolish I went to enlist some where around valentines day if my memory is any good. Never thought a fungus could be so valuable. Last step of the physical the doctor congratulated me with a 1y classification. Why I asked? They had not picked up my asthmatic wheeze which was pretty loud. "Your feet will rot to your knees where all of these recruits are going. You have a fungus on the soles of your feet." That was the last I heard of the Army.

The space program was in full swing. On Long Island, Grumman Aircraft was the prime contractor for the original LEM project. Subcontracting companies all over the Island were getting work. You could quit a job on one morning an be working two others by the afternoon.

So here we are 5,000,000 unemployed and counting. All the Ex Presidents men and the Ex President defiant in their posture on the war crimes they have committed. And our great agent of Change is dragging his feet on starting the prosecutions.

Our corporate heads have gotten drunk on the recent release of $350,000,000 and cannot wait to get their hands on the next chunk of our borrowed chance at reviving the economy.

Please put your name in as a possible Next President of a Corporation. With a bit of common sense you could not do worse. Most of us would not think of remodeling our office to the tune of $1,300,000. Lets hear from some who could do better I know you are out there.