[AGL] what fun!

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Charlie,

Thanks for the rundown on weaponry. I am given to understand that you 
don't want to fire off a shotgun inside an apartment as it will make 
many holes in the walls. When we lived in a free-standing house in 
Clarksville, I was always a little uptight leaving the house unoccupied. 
We were robbed once or twice. One of the nice things about living where 
we do is a complete sense of security. We could lock the door on our 
apartment and leave for a year fully confident that no one would break 
in. In fact many of the rather wealthy owners here (you should see the 
luxury cars they drive and park in our basement garage) have vacation 
houses and do leave for months on end. The rich people have it good.

Next to the grinding poverty of so many Americans, there are many 
millions of well-off Americans. And well-off foreigners. For example, 
there is a giant 48 story apartment house just down the way built with 
Chinese money as a Chinese friend informed me. I haven't looked up the 
property in the Travis Count Property rolls  but I suspect than many 
most or all of the apartments have been sold to wealthy Chinese NONE of 
whom live in those apartments. I know this because there are never any 
lights on in the windows and not a stick of furniture on any of the 
balconies. Buy the property, pay the hefty property tax and have the 
option to run for your life from Mother China if you get crosswise with 
the authorities. In China every successful business stays in business by 
keeping on the right side of the government. And you never know when a 
rival will arrange for the authorities to come down on you for illegal 
business practices. And you're forced to engage in illegal business 
practices because everyone else does and if you didn't you wouldn't be 
in business in the first place. Great system, eh?

Mike