Letter to the Editor The Sun Sentinel

July 4, 2012

Letter to the Editor
The Sun Sentinel
500 E. Broward Blvd.
Ft. Lauderdale, FL. 33394

RE: Congratulations!

Sirs,

Your 2 page editorial section today is marvelous.

It begins with a Boca Raton reader saying how proud she is to be an American because “Jewish genius”, a heritage of which she is very proud, made music memorable. Would it be considered a hate crime to ask if she ever heard Klezmer music? Also, good editing would have included the term “stiff-necked” somewhere

Your main editorial reprints the Declaration of Independence…almost. You omit the reasons for the leave taking from the gentle handed jurisdiction of His Britannic Majesty... Here’s one that may still have resonance after more than 2 centuries.

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

Try to picture the best of the Post Office and the Department of Motor Vehicles rationing out nephrectomies and transesophogeal ecocardiograms. The Internal Revenue Service will be in charge of appeals. The rule of the jungle, the survival of the fittest, will give us our first Death Panels. Ah! The coming joys of Obamacare!

On your second page you present a most interesting juxtaposition.

Paul Greenberg deserves exposure if for no other reason than his being the first journalist to use Slick Willy, AKA President Handsome Billy form Hot Springs, as apt an appellation as any Arkansas politician ever earned. That he was able to get John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Adlai Stevenson into one article is evidence of his narrative skills. Further, his tangential reference to Richard Weaver can give the curious reader a delightful day of reading.

You end with Wee Robbie Reich.

I can say that without fear of the dreaded Word Police pounding on my door because it was President Clinton said that he had never met anyone whose suit size was 30 extra short. There is no truth to the rumor that Sandy Berger hid him in his clown pants when he was pilfering classified documents out of the National Security Agency. Wee Robbie is a bright guy. He could have catalogued the documents as quickly as this goniff was stealing them.

He stands tall in his constant caterwauling of the trite mantras of modern American Liberalism.

It begins with a call for free speech for him but not for me. Typical.

He says that rich people are evil because they refuse to pay their “fair” share of taxes. Why does the word “more” leap to mind when boobs like him talk about “fair”? Why is “fair” never defined? “Fair” is like the horizon. No matter how fast you run, no matter how hard you try, it is a goal line that can never be crossed. “Life”, we are reminded, “is unfair”.

He never mentions how “fair” it would be to attack the malefactors of great wealth,

2 examples will do.

The will of Senator Ted “Tosspot” Kennedy contains one asset that bears examination, very close examination. It is a trust begun for him by his boot legging, Hitler loving, anti-Semitic father in 1936. His estate will manage it for the benefit of his children. How “unfair” is that? 76 years of wealth and income mocking the hardworking 99% is a bit much, isn’t it? “Fairness” demands that this gazillion dollar tax dodge be broken up to help the single mothers, usually women of color, with children in need of a good Ritalin program who are being exploited by Wal*Mart.

My wife’s cousins went to New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL with the wife of Senator Jay Rockefeller [D-WVa] Her house was so big that it had an indoor golf course. Her husband’s family has killed more polar bears with its carbon footprint than anybody or anything since the last large asteroid hit the earth.

Would it not be “fair” for our undeserving poor, victims of life’s circumstances all, to share in the 1% swag? That’s only “fair”, right?

I wish you had included a reference to my Uncle Adam publishing his little book on July 4, 1776 also.

Now that would be “fair”.



Kevin Smith