Sixth Grade Education and a Net Worth of $1.5 Billion Dollars

 In todays dollars.

So you often wonder why Republicans want to cut funding to education?  And perhaps some of the reasons they will never have the courage to tell us.

Google Search Al Capones Net Worth

We also tend to think, so what if an inner city drug dealer makes a lot of money?  They are not going to be smart enough to keep it?  They are not going to be smart enough to use that money to lobby for what amounts to subversive elements that only benefit criminals?

The fact that Capone had a 6th Grade education and $1.5 billion dollar net worth in todays money say's something far different about it.

Think of how people who have that amount of money today buy power and influence.  Then ask yourself if it worked any different in the time of Capone.

He was expelled from school for hitting a female teacher.

So I just read in the paper an article titled "Wisconsin winds up bottom shelf in bar tabs" by Maia Pandey for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Alaska has the highest rate of private alcohol consumption per individual.  $1,249.76.  Wisconsin didn't make the top ten!

So lets divide that by 365 days in a year.  It amounts to $3.42 cents per day.

Lets presume that people don't drink every weekday because they have some small level of responsibility to fulfill (perhaps they don't want to get tipsy and fall through the ice or drive their work(?) truck into the ditch? and lets multiply that number by 7 and we get $23.94.

$23.94 that is likely the cost of a case of beer.  24 cans?  It used to be.  

Per a momentary search you can get 30 cans of beer for $22.49 today.

$.749 a beer.  So even if you do it the other way and assume they are not binge drinking on two weekend nights.  They are drinking...3.42/.749   Four and one half beers per day per individual.

Are those parents who take a true and meaningful interest in their child's education?  You have to be kidding me!

You might as well put a statue of Al Capone out front of every Church or Religious place of worship in the United States.  Might as well erect one on the White House lawn right in front of the new ballroom Trump is making to house gay (old meaning?) festivities.

That's all.

© 2025 Thomas Paul Murphy

And here is a notion of a comparison?  Someone who learned to take pride in their work before they first (ever) starting drinking versus someone that learned to take pride in their work after they started drinking?  There might be a slight nuance in there.

30 beers over a period of two days per individual?  Is that not the gestalt of death and cancer?  Dismal low life?  False bubbling personas?  False assurances of American Quality?  Guaranties and warranties that are near worthless?