Steven Goldstein The Sun-Sentinel

March 18, 2012
Steven Goldstein
The Sun-Sentinel

RE: Too much Saint Patrick’s Day celebration? Some comments on your column in which you nail your theses to the door of the church of modern American Liberalism.

My dear Professor,

Your assignment today is to find out who wrote the following passage.

“He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent
hither swarms of officers, to harass our people,
and eat out their substance.”


Here are some hints.

It was published on July 4th, 1776. The man who wrote it became President of the United States despite having no experience as a community activist.

Also, your comment that you “are against the state’s seizing private property without just compensation” is not only not original it is borderline plagiarism. The only mitigation your defense could prevent is that it wasn’t swiped from a document that no card carrying modern American Liberal ever reads. It’s called the Constitution. It too was written by another future President who, despite a remarkable background, also had no experience as a community organizer. The last 12 words of the 5th Amendment read “nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation”.

A key to understanding any of the various documents in the pantheon of liberty is that they are anathema to the warped thinking processes of modern American Liberals. They all say what government cannot do. Also, they proclaim that certain rights are ours by virtue of birth. These rights are ours “from beyond the stars”. Since no government can grant these rights all they can do is affirm them or deny them. You may wish to become more conversant with something called the Natural Law.

Simple, isn’t it?

You mention a company that profited from “corporate welfare”. It was “enticed to move to Florida for a $750,000 state grant”. The only positive thing that can be said of the transaction is that we did not borrow the money from China. $750,000 is a rounding error compared to the $600,000,000 rat hole called Solyndra. Maybe you can tell me the difference between them.


It was sign of Irish hospitality in my father’s house that there was no such thing as a large whiskey .Maybe, as my father’s father would say, you had a “wee bit too much of the craythur”. Maybe some of the “breath of life” killed the Saul Alinsky brain cells. Maybe your blind devotion to Keynes has come upon its Damascus moment.

Maybe you have come to know that “stones are hard, water is wet”.

Maybe there are leprechauns.

Maybe “a terrible beauty is born”.




KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET