September 22, 2013
Gary Stein
The Sun Sentinel

RE: Jeepers, but you’re going to be mad. I mean really, really mad when I tell you what’s been going on right in front of your nose. Some comments on your unlinkable column on welcome signs in today’s Sun Sentinel.

Big Stein,

Since you chose to remain mum on whether or not Adolph Eichmann should have been executed I’ll try a different topic.

Your column decries Hallandale Beach thus: “This is the same Hallandale Beach,
by the way, that decided to raid $4 million from its reserves.”

Later on you claim that you are shocked, shocked to find out that “commissioners aren’t spending their money, they’re spending taxpayers’ money”.

My initial diagnosis is that you are suffering from acute, pernicious toxic, contagious, and if left untreated, terminal modern American Liberalism.

One of the symptoms is talking about things, particularly economic things, about which you know nothing. A quick example would be if inner city youth are unemployable at $8 an hour why would they would be less unemployable at $10 an hour. God’s Holy Trousers but that’s so damn dumb it makes my cat whistle. Once you square the minimum wage rhomboid tell me how a single mother, a woman of color, is hurt when Wal-Mart cuts the price of Ritalin, a drug that enables her teenage son to escape being just another feral inner city youth.

Today’s example is Hallandale Beach “raiding” its reserves.

The purpose of reserves, a thing that requires the reserving entity to forego the immediate use of positive cash flow for an unknown future use, is that they can be “raided”. They are spending their citizens’ money. If the electors think they are spending it unwisely they can vote them out.

But wait…there’s more.

Send for Little Stein.

Get him home so he can Gorilla Glue all of your cranial – strike that – all of your bodily orifices. When he finishes that have him wrap you in duct tape like you were from the bottom of a pyramid.

When you find out what the United States has been doing to the sacrosanct “lock boxes”, the ones that have our successful golden years in their confines, the ones where all the money paid into Social Security is percolating, you will be several legs up on Krakatoa. If Little Stein can’t seal you up tighter than a clam’s ass you had best have a Haz-Mat 800 number on your speed dial. People in Pompeii will be impressed.

I don’t know how else to tell you this. No foreplay is possible.

Brace yourself.

The Feds, the people who run the Post Office, the people who have been fighting poverty for 50 years, have been “raiding” our “reserves” in a way suggesting that they are the largest ravenous fox in the world’s largest open hen house.

They did it in daylight. They have been doing it since 1964. They have been doing it with the advice and consent of the catchers on this Ponzi javelin team.

When the “lock boxes” are opened they will be filled with bupkis. The only thing inside will be IOUs scrip, chits, markers. Bernie Madoff could only hope to have done as well.

The only thing that will help those poor souls on the back nine of life will be the deus ex machina appearance of a device that will make $50 dollar bills and then throw them off the back of a moving train.

Talk about cojonic chutzpah!

It gets better.

Once a year the goniffs and shysters meet for a reconciliation.

“How much did we take? That much? Here’s my personal guarantee for it.”

Before the Gorilla Glue and the duct tape maybe Little Stein should sew up those potentially hazardous orifices. The reason is simple. No Congress can bind another Congress. There may come a time when the Continentals in the stash fly away. There may come a time when Sharia law, the UN, or the World Court forbids their distribution.

Of course, if the Welcome sign at Hallandale Beach was part of the Summer of Recovery that would be a mat of a different color, right?

“Raiding reserves”, coupled with “spending taxpayers’ money”, makes me want to shoot somebody. How about you?

Kevin Smith
Warriorbardit@Bellsouth.net