Margaret Carlson Bloomberg News Service

March 18, 2010

Margaret Carlson
Bloomberg News Service
1399 New York Avenue
Washington, DC 20005

RE: Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! – Something that Michigan excels in. Some comments on your column in Bloomberg.

Ms. Carlson,

I was taking a well deserved break from my never ending hunt for military personnel who are tax cheats. You told me that they were here 10 years ago. I fell like Ulysses minus the fun parts.

I enjoy your column not for the opinions you voice but rather for the fact that you never seem to be burdened by evidence to the contrary. Facts, those hard things, things that you don’t want in your shoe, still remain.

“Jobs. Jobs. Jobs.”

Ah but for a Bach to set a tune to the favorite mantra of the Church of Modern American Liberalism.

To put jobs and Michigan in the same sentence is to call out the seldom used words “guffaw” and harrumph”. I am told that if Detroit losses any more neighborhoods the wolverine may yet make a comeback. They have some tough winters there but I don’t think they could support the beleaguered polar bears.

Your snarky remarks about the Upper Peninsula of Michigan suggest that you would favor its secession. It could hook up with Canada. At least they would be getting some really good heath care.

If the Upper Peninsula is in a “slow, steady economic decline” what in the name of Hercules [labors, right?] is going on in the Southern half of the state?

Since mush brained modern American Liberals have deep-sixed the car business the only growth industries in Detroit are defense lawyers, prison guards, and undertakers. Maybe we can get DOW Chemical back in the napalm business. If they succeed with that they can resurrect Agent Orange. Surely something in Detroit is “shovel ready”.

I’ll run the risk that of you thinking ill of me but you know as much about “job creation” as the Detroit Lions know about football.




I’ll go out on a limb here and say that you don’t know that from any measurable standards, from any statistics available, the American economy was in worse shape after 6 years of the sacred New Deal than it was at the beginning.

It was. You can look it up.

I say that because you think that all it takes is men of good will, some intelligent planning, an enlightened bureaucracy, a progressive tax code, some shared sacrifice, and working together for a common goal to have Jobs, Jobs, Jobs, environmentally sensitive Jobs, appear like they just jumped out of the formidable forehead of Zeus.

Alas, it didn’t work then; it won’t work now.

I have just learned that a new Veterans’ Cemetery opened in Palm Beach County. [Not on Worth Street] Getting there may not be as hard as kayaking between Scylla and Charybdis but I am always up for an adventure.

There is no statute of limitations on tax fraud.

Even if they’re dead.

We can repo the coffin.

Kevin Smith


PS – Speaking of “creating jobs”, were you ever hired by a poor person or a company in bankruptcy?