When
Steve Mnuchin the 77th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States of
America was a young boy he had spent his summers at Camp Chickawah located on
Island Pond In Harrison, Maine. Mnuchin
grew up well to do and Jewish in New York City in the 1960’s. It was during these long hot summers that
Mnuchin’s parents Robert and Elaine would do what all well off Jewish parents
did and ship their children off to a sleep away summer camp, somewhere far away. These sleep away camps, (not to be confused by
our gentile readers with concentration camps) were by Jewish law located at
least a minimal 4 to 15 hours away from the home address of the parents. This was to insure the most anxiety as
possible for the children and quiet for the parents. For those less fortunate Jews (there always
are just a few), there were day camps located in a closer proximity to their
homes. Studies from that time showed
that Jewish parents who sent their children to day camps rather than sleep away
camps (which lasted a life affirming 8 weeks) were infinitely less happy with
their own lives. Robert Mnuchin was a
wealthy business man, so he was more than happy to send young Steven and his
older brother Alan to Camp Chickawah for those 8 weeks of summer bliss. Robert and Elaine would have the “hired help”
pack the boys things into large trunks and then have the trunks and the boys
shipped north to Maine.
By their third year at Camp Chickawah both boys had become
accustomed to the in’s and out’s of summer camp. While Allan was good at sports, young Steven
showed an aptitude for the arts and crafts.
The other boys found young Steven a bit on the girly side for wanting to
spend his days doing pottery rather than playing baseball. Steven would just shrug his shoulders and go
off to make another ashtray. When the
other boys would pick on Steven for “throwing like a girl”, Allan would always
step up for his brother saying “one day my brother will be able to buy and sell
all of you putz’s like gefilte fish.”
The time that his bunk mates had given Steven a “flying wedgie” by
hanging him on a nail by his underwear, suspending him over the ground till his
underwear tore, was the only time though that younf Steven every let his
bunkmates see him cry. It’s just that
the tearing of the underwear had burned the underside of his scrotum quite bad. Luckily the Russian Jewish nurse in the
infirmary was more then gentle while applying the vaseline salve to his young
balls.
But what young Steven was most “famous” for at Camp
Chickawah was for his way of borrowing something from a bunkmate or a friend
and never returning it. For this was
young Steven dubbed the nickname Steven “The Mooch” Mnuchin. Whenever another child received a care
package from their parents or grandparents, The Mooch was the first one to be
their bunk side as the child opened the package. The Mooch would lean in over the box, eyeing
everything inside. “Oh, you don’t want
that,” he would say. “You definetely don’t like that,” he would insist. Just to get rid of him, his bunkmates would
through some candy across the bunk for him to run after. And that he did, scrambling across the floor
for a few jelly beans, calling out, “that’s mine, mine all mine.” During mealtimes The Mooch would make sure
that the biggest portions were served to him by his counselors by saying “you
know who my father is.” The other kids would
just role their eyes, for all their fathers were well known by everyone who was
anyone at the camp.
And when that moment came
when a care package would arrive for him and Allen, well one can imagine what
happened. The Mooch would pay off the
biggest campers in the camp to guard his stash.
Offering them one all day gobstopper each and a peak at the nudie photos
his father would sneak in the box for him and his brother, The Mooch had his
security force well in hand. But usually
most of the other kids wanted nothing to do with The Mooch, especially when he
received a package. They would just
leave him alone to horde his Tootsie Rolls and Hershey Kisses for himself.
Yet the only persons The Mooch was known to share his hordes
with were the young women who worked in the laundry house. These were local girls from the area. None were Jewish of course and all had
flowing flaxen aryan hair, goyishe princesses.
From an early age Mnuchin always had a hard-on for the non-jewish women
he encountered. Only here at summer camp
was he ever able to get up relatively close to one. In the middle of the night he would sneak
down to the laundry house, jimmy open the door with the swiss army knife that
his Uncle Bernard had given his for his Bar Mitzvah and leave little chocolate
suprises for the blonde laundry girls.
Too shy to ever talk to them, The Mooch prayed often on Saturdays that
one day God would deliver him one for his own.
Years latte rafter becoming a powerful hedge fund manipulator and
producer of some of Hollywoods shiitiest films he was able to buy two. After his first divorce, The Mooch decided
that he would take another, trade in a Heather for a Louise, for The Mooch
there was little difference. One was just a little less worn around the
edges. For The Mooch loved the freshness
of the forbidden fruit more than wrinkled up kosher dates. And a blonde goyish trophy wife, is something
every Jewish boy has dreamed of since after the end of WWII.
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