June 23, 2013
Michael Putney
The Miami Herald

Yes, Jimmy Carter, and whenever I write or say his name I am compelled by a “decent respect to the opinions of mankind” to proclaim that he was the worst President of the 20th century, did send his daughter to a D.C. public grammar school.

3 things about Carter:

#1 – He was so inept that he made the passage to the great Reagan inevitable.
#2 – Thank God he didn’t get to nominate any Supreme Court Justices.
#3 – Dwayne Andreas, CEO of ADM and the first American to meet Gorbachev, bought Carter’s peanut operation for $6,000,000. I understand that a majority of the transaction was the assumption of debt. Thus, a public company was able to get a “marker” on an ex-President for chump change, for, forgive me, peanuts. The company long ago marked it to zero and claimed a tax loss. Carter should be flogged.

I knew and worked with the “secret Jewish millionaire” – according to the NY Post - who financed Carter’s campaign in Nassau and Suffolk. By 1980 his wife said if you see him for lunch don’t come home for dinner. He chose his wife.

The DC Teachers’ Union did Rhee in. Now what?

The Democrats controlled both Houses of Congress in 2009 and 2010. How did they stop him from expanding his “rainbow stew” menu?

My father’s first job was shoveling coal into a furnace when he was 15.
He went to high school when he was 26.
When he died he was a Judge
My mother was 68b when he died. She lived in what can only be called “comfortable circumstances” until she was 95.
How much should she have given up to help Obama “spread the wealth around”?
How much should you give up? Since I am in perpetual “disfavor with fortune and men’s eyes” I am precluded from making any monetary contributions. Rest assured that my prayers and best wishes are always with those who are “unlucky in life’s lottery”. Speaking of “fairness”, how much of your “little tin box” are you willing to part with, short of becoming a discalced mendicant who thinks Mother Teresa runs a resort, to tip the scales in the eternal quest for “fairness”?

One of my favorite lines, from one of my favorite guys, the legendary Big Mike from Bayonne, a noted saloon keeper, a famous sportsman, and now a dedicated public servant, is “What a country! That’s why you never see anybody swimming TO Cuba!

The “struggling middle class” is forced to struggle more than normally because the government, supposedly their government, is in fierce competition with them.

If raising taxes is “fair” would not Logic dictate that a tax rate of 105% would be the fairest of all?

Are there any rational adults out there who still think that Obamacare, enforced by the IRS and regulated by the best of the Post Office, will reduce medical costs? If they were women they would be perpetually pregnant.

Let’s give the Heat an A, the Marlins an F, and the Dolphins an incomplete. It sure as Hell beats Cleveland. The people of Miami/Dade County are only indentured for about $900,000,000. One Hell of a trade.

Will this be the year of “The Summer of Recovery”? If not now, when?

Are the Mandarin moneylenders still smiling?

I am going back to Vivaldi.


KS