The LuLac Edition #5, 262, March 5th, 2025

 

WRITE ON

WEDNESDAY

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This week we share the letter from Poland’s  living legend, political prisoner and former President. To Trump. President. It is harsh and well deserved against   the unpatriotic man child we call the President. Former President of Poland Lech Walesa wrote the following letter to Trump.

 

LECH WALESA’S LETTER TO TRUMP. ALL MAGA SUPPORTERS SHOULD LEARN SOMETHING FROM THIS:

 

Former President of Poland Lech Walesa wrote the following letter to Trump.

 

Your Excellency, Mr. President,

We watched the report of your conversation with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, with fear and distaste. We find it insulting that you expect Ukraine to show respect and gratitude for the material assistance provided by the United States in its fight against russia. Gratitude is owed to the heroic Ukrainian soldiers who shed their blood in defense of the values of the free world. They have been dying on the front lines for more than 11 years in the name of these values and the independence of their homeland, which was attacked by Putin’s Russia.

We do not understand how the leader of a country that symbolizes the free world cannot recognize this.

Our alarm was also heightened by the atmosphere in the Oval Office during this conversation, which reminded us of the interrogations we endured at the hands of the Security Services and the debates in Communist courts. Prosecutors and judges, acting on behalf of the all-powerful communist political police, would explain to us that they held all the power while we held none. They demanded that we cease our activities, arguing that thousands of innocent people suffered because of us. They stripped us of our freedoms and civil rights because we refused to cooperate with the government or express gratitude for our oppression. We are shocked that President Volodymyr Zelensky was treated in the same manner.

The history of the 20th century shows that whenever the United States sought to distance itself from democratic values and its European allies, it ultimately became a threat to itself. President Woodrow Wilson understood this when he decided in 1917 that the United States must join World War I. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood this when, after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he resolved that the war to defend America must be fought not only in the Pacific but also in Europe, in alliance with the nations under attack by the Third Reich.

We remember that without President Ronald Reagan and America’s financial commitment, the collapse of the Soviet empire would not have been possible. President Reagan recognized that millions of enslaved people suffered in Soviet russia and the countries it had subjugated, including thousands of political prisoners who paid for their defense of democratic values with their freedom. His greatness lay, among other things, in his unwavering decision to call the USSR an “Empire of Evil” and to fight it decisively. We won, and today, the statue of President Ronald Reagan stands in Warsaw, facing the U.S. Embassy.

Mr. President, material aid—military and financial—can never be equated with the blood shed in the name of Ukraine’s independence and the freedom of Europe and the entire free world. Human life is priceless; its value cannot be measured in money. Gratitude is due to those who sacrifice their blood and their freedom. This is self-evident to us, the people of Solidarity, former political prisoners of the communist regime under Soviet russia.

We call on the United States to uphold the guarantees made alongside Great Britain in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which established a direct obligation to defend Ukraine’s territorial integrity in exchange for its relinquishment of nuclear weapons. These guarantees are unconditional—there is no mention of treating such assistance as an economic transaction.

Signed,

Lech Wałęsa, former political prisoner, President of Poland

The LuLac Edition #5, 261, March 4th, 2025

 

TRUMP SPEECH TAKEAWAYS

All show, no facts on how he’ll fix things. He did talk about eggs. When he did, he kept the blame on former President Joe Biden’s administration while providing little detail on how he would bring down, for example, the cost of eggs.

“Joe Biden, especially, let the price of eggs get out of control," Trump said.

Egg prices are indeed at an all-time high, but largely because bird flu outbreaks have led to shortages by wiping out millions of hens.

“Secretary, do a good job on that,” Trump said, presumably to Brooke Rollins, the new secretary of agriculture.

Beyond that, Trump didn’t have much to propose in terms of bringing down costs other than what he said during the election campaign: increased energy production and cutting what he calls fraud and waste in the federal government, both of which may impact inflation indirectly over time.

Trump introduced Elon Musk as the spearhead of that effort to cheers in the room. Trump credited Musk with identifying "hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud," an assertion that far exceeds even what the administration has claimed so far.

He went on for an hour and forty minutes. He spent time on Social Security going through a litany of SS recipients who were hundreds’ of years old. This was a warning  in advance. He will come after social security and Medicaid.

He was mean, ungracious, told lie after life, misconstrued facts and fed the country pure bullshit about tariffs.

The GOP kissed his ass, the Dems never stood up for anything. If he said, “like you’ve never seen before”, he said it at least fifty times. He wants to RUN everything. Let him and see how far he’ll get.

In the meantime, here it is: judge for yourself.

The LuLac Edition #5, 260, March 4th, 2025

 

TALE OF TWO MATTS

McGLOIN

Matt McGloin has been in the news for a decision to take another job that was in the work world of his area of expertise. Football. But then after his playing days were over, he had the unique opportunity to serve his community. So he teamed up with long time City Councilman Billy Gaughan to run for County Commissioner. It was a risk going against a long time Democrat in for him uncharted territory. But he and Gaughan prevailed.

When taking office, unlike many newly elected politicos, they didn’t ease into their terms. Both took on the third rail of local politics which was putting its \financial house in order. It was a risk and a gutsy move. They got blow back. But that didn’t seem to deer the team.

Then McGloin’s past came into view when Bill O'Brien got the Boston College job. We all have had great mentors and bosses in our lives. When O’Brien offered McGloin the job, the competitive juices of the athlete kicked in. There are only 269 men have worked as a full-time head coach for an NFL team since 1970. It is an elite club. When a man who coached you as a player and was himself your coach, the athlete in you has to kick in to be part of O’Brien’s new orbit.

If only we as humans were one dimensional. That would make life easy. But we’re not. Humans have multiple facets and responsibilities.  After the glow of a consequential decision, McGloin met those alternative issues head on. Family, education of children, roots, and doing what’s right for more than yourself smacked him in the face.

On the government side in The Lac, that decision caused a rift between Gaughan and his party. Gaughan recommended someone he was comfortable with, the Democratic committee said otherwise. Then the County Attorney advised that McGloin was still a commissioner because his resignation was never accepted.

What to do?

THIS!

1.   Don’t accept McGloin’s resignation.

2.   Unless he has a local offer, give McGloin the opportunity (if he wants) to finish the work he was elected to do with Gaughan.

3.   Both Commissioners have had tremendous criticism from people regarding the tax hike. This is not THAT.

4.   McGloin did nothing to hurt the people of The Lac. His only sin was realizing his decision was premature.

The athlete and the politician met on a collision course that can certainly be repaired.

Bring him back, take the heat and get on with the work you were elected to do. There is much to do and NOTHING to be embarrassed about.

Finally, this. A wise politician who was under fire on the front page of a newspaper told one of his loyal friends who was upset at his predicament. The politico looked him in the eye and said, “I’m on the front page today, tell me what was on the front page yesterday.”

His loyal friend couldn’t.

Conclusion: this too will pass.

 

CARTWRIGHT

Former Congressman Matt Cartwright has not gone quietly into that good night. The 6 term lawmaker sent this message recently to his constituents.

Checking in with Matt Cartwright

Well, February made us shiver, but Eagles fans sure got a treat from a big Birds performance at the Super Bowl! Marion and I enjoyed cookies baked by Renee Castaldi.

 After the election, while I decide if I have any more politics left in my system, I accepted a Visiting Professorship at my old school, Hamilton College, in upstate New York. Once a week, I'm teaching a senior seminar on Serving in Congress.

 Otherwise, you can find me at my office, 227 Penn Ave. in Scranton.

 Our sons, Jack and Matty, are doing well. Jack is practicing law at a fine firm in Atlanta, doing interesting work on election law cases and business litigation. Matty is at the M.I.T. School of Business, for his master's in business administration. He got engaged this summer, to a beautiful, smart young lady, Celeste Pallone, who just was awarded her Ph.D. this summer from Columbia University. She's in a Research Fellowship at M.I.T. So, we're getting lots of M.I.T. swag!

 Marion is hard at work as usual on her law cases and getting ready to serve as the President of the American Association for Justice in two years. She got named to the top 10 lawyers in Pennsylvania by SuperLawyers, for the second year in a row. The boys and I are busting our buttons with pride.

 Be safe and well, and stay in touch!

 

Matt