Thank You

We would like to express our appreciation to all those who comforted us at our time of loss of Wyatt Cole O’Neill. Thank you to the Service Club, the staff of POC school, and everyone for providing the great meal and fellowship at the school after the funeral. We would like to thank the POC Volunteer Fire Department for their service, support, and presence with our family when it was most needed.

Thank you to all of our friends and family for your support and prayers during our difficult time. It means so much to see this small community come together to help and support us in our loss.

Nathan and Jenny O’Neill
Billy and Carol Goode
Dennis and Susan O’Neill
Jeremy and April O’Neill

Helicopters

Both my wife and I enjoy hearing helicopters flying around POC again. That tells me that maybe work on the offshore rigs has picked up. I sure hope so because a lot of local oilfield workers and welders could use the work.

Being a old chopper man from the Korean war days, I wonder if these choppers have their own separate sound like our H-19 Surkoskys had. We would be in the hanger or out on the flight line and hear one of our birds coming in. Someone would say that’s 272 or 165.

I was over there after the war was over and our duty was to transfer troops or do search and rescue. We had no weapons aboard except the pilot’s 45 pistol. Some day I hope to take a trip to the Army Air Museum at Fort Rucker, Ala. where they have old 272 on display along with a picture I took of it during a test flight.

G.B.Robertson

Ineptocracy

Ineptocracy: A system of government where the Least Capable to Lead are elected by the Least Capable of Producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are Rewarded with goods and services paid for by the Confiscated Wealth of a diminishing number of Producers.

In my opinion, President Obama was elected the first time because he promised he would take care of everything. To the college student who wants very much to believe in Utopia, he was the new savior. To the welfare recipients, he would pay for everything. I saw an interview where this woman was so ecstatic she was almost in tears. The reporter asked her what she thought of the new President. She replied he was going to pay for everything, they had nothing to worry about. The reporter asked where the money was coming from, she didn’t know but President Obama was going to take care of them.

He was reelected by these same welfare recipients, the blind straight party voters, plus this time the illegal forgiveness played a large part. Everyone wants something for nothing.

I deeply resent (as do most retirees) being called a “Benefit Recipient”. We all worked for upwards of 40 years, paid our dues, thinking the money would be there when we became too old to work. Oh, NO!! The great welfare society ran out of money, so they gave Social Security and Medicare IOU’s and bought more votes.

INEPTOCRACY!! We are headed for a big fall.

Connie Hunt
Port Lavaca

Thank You, Coast Guard

One more time the members of the POC Service Club have our branch of the Coast Guard to thank. Our semi-annual Garage & Bake Sale was held Saturday, November 9th, and was preceded by two days of hard work by our members. However, much of that work had been alleviated by the nonstop assistance of two very able and strong gentlemen from the Coast Guard: Andre Moore and Cesar Tamayo. These charming men spent several hours loading boxes onto trucks at the County Barn and then unloading those same boxes at the Pavilion and placing them on the many tables. Thank you so very much for your help. And, I’m sure you can all look forward to another batch of cookies.

Sincerely,
Janet Johnson, President

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