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To: Yorikke who wrote (14150)	6/8/2013 10:00:40 PM
From: John Pitera	Respond to of 33421

Yorikke, I think that I made your point for you..... look at this quote that is part of what you are responding too. *Bill Clinton can be much more effective in raising hundreds of millions if not Billions of Dollars for his Global Philathropic Institute* than he can by having his boots on the ground.... running logistics in Haiti after the Massive earthquake in Port Au Prince. Look at how Bill CLinton went down to Haiti to direct relief efforts after the massive earthquake in 2011...... He had taken a particular interest in raising the standard of living in Haiti.... by many metrics the poorest country in all of North and South America.... .. He had a special interest and ownership stake in bringing them out of poverty prior to the earthquake.... the earthquake hits and he get down there to run logistics and to make calls for major relief aid from a number of countries...... *He gets down there with the Chaos.... the lack of people being able to help one another and it is massively hot humid and oppressive with no electricity to cool down... After 3 days he had a major heart episode that came damned close to killing him* and he had to come back to NY and get Heart surgery The path that everyone is on is very different........ What motivates the MD's involved with "Doctors" without borders..... I myself engage in some ministry and help some people on occasion when I can.... But as my friend Stuart McGowan has so aptly put it *" You can not help get your neighbor's OxCart Out of the Ditch, if your own OXCart is in the Ditch"* I have an ability to write and communicate.... do this is probably a better utilization of my time and skill sets than making beds for the needy which I have no special aptitude for. I believe I started out my missive commenting on the tremendous contributions that filmmakers Steve Spielberg,... and other directors, authors, musicians and other thinkers provide which contributes to the rich tapestry of our human experience and our civilization.. I can not tell other people their calling and what they should do to be happy and live a fulfilled life.. I would be extremely lucky and or blessed to be able to intuit or guided as to how I can do something with my time here in this life doing something that makes me feel like I am not wasting my life... I certainly, can not tell others how to reach Nirvana, Zen or personal serenity....I am not Budda or a prophet. does this put my clarify my thought process a bit. John

To: Yorikke who wrote (14150)	6/8/2013 10:48:08 PM
From: John Pitera	1 Recommendation Recommended By ajtj99 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33421

Yorikke, I do want to add... and my edit time was up that I was thinking specifically about 2 groups of people when I was writing early today.... I got to watch a bit of the funeral ceremony for the firefighters and first responders in the very tiny town of west texas... who were volunteer firefigters and went to put out the fire at the fertilizer plant and were incinerated when the fertilizer blew up like a mushroom, crowd...... when you saw the large pictures of each of the men which were above their flag drapped coffin (I was in Chicago and was missing Texas, but really I was missing the small one stop light town that I grew up in, in New Jersey and the one that my mother, my Maternal Grandfather lived his whole life in and my great grandparents lived in .... up at the foothills of the Adironacks in upstate New York.... ) when I saw the pictures of the men, their faces ... a couple of them with Cowboy hats and a couple with other distinctive aspects to their portraits, the thought went through my mind that these were the kind of descent close knit community folks that I would like to spend time with. The other thing rambling through my mind this morning.... I watched about an hour of different You tube videos shot by non professionals the day that the planes hit the twin towers in New York City..... in one particular video... I saw footage of the firefighters... loaded down with heavy loads of gear and marching single file into one of the buildings when it was on fire... the look of grim foreknowledge of where they were going was plainly on their face.... at least to me it was..... it was as if they were thinking we are marching straight into hell or into a volcano and they knew that they probably would not make it out alive..... or they would be darn lucky if they did..... It was the same type of look on the soldier's faces at the start of the Normandy invasion on D Day in Stephen Spielberg's epic movie "Saving Private Ryan"..... they knew that if they looked at the man to their left and the man to the right ... that one out of two or one out of 3 would survive the next hour...... That takes something... some call it courage, others call it stupidity.... "i'm not giving my life for someone else, screw them" I have had an insurance licenses twice before in the past as I have had series 7 licenses..... I took a 3 day Kaplan course... in early April... Party because it was paid for... second because I learned some things, as the laws and tests are always evolving.... ( much more focus on ethics, after Dodd-Frank and the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2008).... and a third of the test is State Law and the last time I took it ....it was in Deland Florida... Florida Law... People would be surprised if they knew how much state law differs from state to state... The course was so enjoyable because some of the best teachers of these courses are very successful professionals that have their own brokerages and own firms and they get to meet and impress entire new waves of people going into the business.... whether it's at a Morgan Stanley, or a New York Life or ABC corp... and the newbies will then often call them in 6 months later to help them with a more complex estate or tax minimization plan for a client.... or because the instructor... Walt Bronson of the Bronson Group, was my instructor and he was funnier than Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, Letterman and Kimmel combined..... go check out www.bronsoncompany.com and you will get an idea of his unique sense of humor..... when Walt was done at the end of the third day, he said we were all going to do great and pass the state licensing exam..... He then commented and this is more or less verbatim.... " You are going to get your score and see you have passed and you will feel so great.... the sky will look a richer shade of azure, the grass will seem profoundly greener, blue birds will be singing on your shoulders and you will be on cloud nine.... he then continued.... as you drive back towards your home stop off at a nursing home.... not one of the super cheap and impoverished ones... but not one of those that run 350,000$ a year...... a grade B nursing home..... and walk in and down the hall.... no one will stop you and ask you who you are.... people do not go to nursing homes and steal old people.. and as you walk down the hall you will see faces in each room turning to the door.... they will mostly be women..as the men die younger.... and each of the women will look up hopefully has someone come to visit me.... Walt said go in and talk with a few of them... He said he wears an extra jacket and layer of clothes due to the fact that the people are so starved to talk to someone from the outside that they wlll literally hold on to you and not let you go and the extra layer prevents bruising..... ( I believe he was embellishing on this specific point.... but that was BECAUSE he was trying to make a point....) He then tied it back into our annual budget deficit and our $17 Trillion cummulative Debt that we will be talking about come labor Day... I would encourage everyone to kick the tires and try it out....or else go to the local library and get involved with a literacy program for 1 month.....