Aiayana Baida The Sun-Sentinel

August 21, 2009

Aiayana Baida
The Sun-Sentinel
200 East Las Olas Boulevard
Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33316

RE: “Free” buses, senior citizens, and a “teachable moment” – As compiled by you in this morning’s Sun-Sentinel.

Ms. Baida,

Indeed life is tough, particularly as you point out, for senior citizens with cancer and arthritis. And soon, no more free buses.

The people in your story will lose their free door-to-door bus service on October 1 How this can happen in Broward County, a bastion of modern American Liberalism, is beyond me. The picture shows senior citizens, women of color, who are disabled. How many times doe the bell have to be rung on the victim scale before we answer?

We have constitutional protection for pigs, manatees will shortly have the vote, and we leave these people to fend for themselves?

Does the Lord Barack the Beneficent, and blessed be his name, know about this?

Surely some Stimulus swag can be found to keep the bus service running and free.

Maybe some wealthy car dealers can forgo some of their Cash for Clunkers loot to help these victims of life’s circumstances. Those who are lucky in life’s lottery owe it to the undeserving poor to lighten their load, to ease their burden.

I read this morning where the President said that the country was getting “wee-weed up” because it’s August.

Then I saw that you provided, unwittingly, the “teachable moment” when you wrote the following:

Without it, he said
“We would be in our homes
getting sicker and dying.”

I never poo-poo wee-weeing.

In my quest to uncover its etymology I stumbled on Dickens.




“Would not they, and we, be better off it they were to die?
By dying they decrease the surplus population.”

Social Security and Medicare are broke.

While we breathlessly await the “Rainbow Stew” of health care reform – It is well to remember the last time two lawyers from the Yale tried to reform health care. This time it’s Harvard. Thank God for the Ivy League. Some things never change! – there are some concrete things we can do.

Senior Citizen 12 volt battery juggling
Senior Citizen foodless weekends
Senior Citizen python wrestling
Senior Citizen power lifting
Senior Citizen volley ball
Senior Citizen stuphfing

Who needs death panels?

Good for the local budget. Great for the Federal budget. Wonderful for the environment. Get them all on skateboards. The carbon footprint goes to zero.

The next generation will thank us.

Don’t you love it when a plan comes together?

I do. And I owe it all to you.




Kevin Smith