I am 83. Certified geezer. But an educated one whose science career is based on pursuit of facts and truth. Here is my top-ten list on a wide variety of current topics, rather than some of the single-issue political tomes that we often see.
1. Mexico has more miles of shoreline on the Gulf of Whatever than does the USA. Do you think the Mexicans are going to call it the Gulf of America? C’mon, man! There are more important issues to attend to.
2. “Undocumented immigrants” is a euphemism for illegal immigrants.
3. I have been searching for a single word that describes Donald Trump’s character. There are many that apply to one or another aspect of his personality, but there is only one that fits him perfectly. It’s a 7-letter word that starts with “a” and ends with “e”; figure it out.
4. It is reported that not as many people are retiring to Florida as in the past. But there are still a lot. Nobody retires to the North. I want to move back to Connecticut, my home state. My wife says to be sure to send her an occasional postcard.
5. Replace the income tax with a national sales tax. That will tax the underground economy, cause multimillionaires to actually pay like the rest of us, and free us from the annual headache of filing and then waiting to get your own money back.
6. Institute a 6-year single-term policy for the presidency and congresspeople. Then you won’t have a large proportion of an elected official’s time spent on fundraising and other activities related to reelection.
7. Take the cap off earnings subject to Social Security tax and forbid the government to use those funds for anything other than SS administration and payments. That will be the end of the never-ending warnings about how the system is headed for bankruptcy.
8. The Cape Coral City Council has moved citizens’ input to the end of their meetings, after they have already voted on issues that the citizens wanted to have input on. Brings to mind the adages about closing the barn door after the horse has escaped, and “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
9. The term “student-athlete” is backwards in terms of the relative importance of the two words. Try to sign up an athlete in a class that has afternoon labs that conflict with practice, and you will see which of the two descriptors is the most important.
10. When they say it is not about the money — it’s about the money.
Gordon R. Ultsch, Ph.D., is a resident o f Cape Coral.
This article originally appeared on Fort Myers News-Press: When they say it is not about the money — it’s about the money | Opinion
Reporting by Gordon R. Ultsch / Fort Myers News-Press
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