Thank You to Kenneth Clark:
Friends for over 75 years!  Not many people can say that.  We would sincerely like to thank Mr. Kenneth Clark for sharing your stories and friendship with our beloved Henry Lee Goode, Sr.  Thank you so much for blessing our day in so many ways.  Your stories made us laugh and cry, and you lifted our spirits.  The “gentle giant” is now a gentle angel.  Brothers by friendship, he loved you just as you loved him.  Thank you Mr. Clark from the bottom of our hearts for making our Memorial Visitation a very memorable and special day.  You are a wonderful man.
The Goode Family

Thank You From The Goode Family:
The family of Henry and Doris Goode wish to express our heartfelt gratitude for everyone’s attendance at their Memorial Visitation held on January 8th.  We sincerely appreciate what a wonderful community we have here in Port O’Connor.  Thank you to the Community Center for providing us a place to hold our Memorial Service.  We would also like to thank the Ladies Service Club for helping us organize, serve and clean up the food service.  You are a wonderful group and help the community so much.  Thank you also to those of you who came out early to help us set up tables and chairs.  Those boys were wonderful pitching in – what a wonderful job you parents are doing raising them!  Thank you to Janet Johnson and family for all of the food.  We express our deepest condolences to your family.  The food was delicious and very much appreciated.  Thank you to all of you who made or brought food, drinks, etc.  We appreciate everyone joining us and to those of you who shared your stories and memories, we will remember them always.  You have no idea how much each and every one of you touched us that day.  I don’t think that we could have even imagined a more perfect setting for providing closure to two lives who meant so much to all of us, and apparently to all of you.  Thank you to all of the family members who put together photos, music, and slideshows.  I know everyone enjoyed looking back through the years.  There are truly too many people to thank individually.  So here is one big overall THANK YOU to Port O’Connor for making January 8th a day that we will never forget.  You are a great community to everyone.
The Goode Family

Letter to the Dolphin:
To those that consider “redistribution of wealth” as a cure to economic problems or “society’s ills”, I reply that it is economic cannibalism! Also coupled with the inevitable Federal Debt it is selling your children into economic slavery.

Marxist Theory does not work at all without total oppression. If you reward people for not working and compensate them for making bad economic decisions, you will get more bad economic decisions. If you punish people for working, saving, and investing with high taxes, they will do less and hide their capital. “Redistribution of wealth” subsidizes the non-productive and will increase their numbers while discouraging and destroying the productive and potential investors.

So the result is more “receivers” every year, with a smaller productive Taxable Base and investors scurrying to non-taxed investments. Also it is invariably coupled with printing un-backed fiat money and causes huge inflation that steals the value of savings, investments, and the purchasing power of your wages.

Wealth is created, not “distributed”! Everything we need and use must be grown, mined, or manufactured, or some combination of the 3. Get over this Ivory-Tower Over-Educated Idiots’ socialist theory. It doesn’t grow corn, catch fish, or kill buffalo.

Longknife 21

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