October 10, 2015

Randy Schultz

The Sun Sentinel

RE: Sauce for the goose and/or dip for the gander? – Some comments on your column in today’s unlinkable Sun Sentinel decrying the profit motive in education.

Mr. Schultz,

“To help insure that growth in Florida, Charter Schools USA

contributes to political campaigns. Hage donated $50,000 to

Rick Scott’s political action committee last year. The company

gave nearly $300,000 in the 2014 cycle. Red Apple gave $7,000.

State Rep. Janet Adkins, who chairs the House K-12 subcommittee,

got $1,000 from his wife – a company vice president – the company 

and Red Apple. Charter Schools also spent $65,000 in the 2010 cycle.

The Sun Sentinel

Today

You

2 things, things akin to turds bobbing in the punch bowl, come to mind.

#1 – If you  have evidence that the above mentioned contributions were bribes you must run, not walk, to the nearest FBI office. And since you buy ink by the barrel you must proclaim it on Page 1. I smell Pulitzer Prize here.

Speaking of bribery being rampant in the education/poverty complex, would you care to comment on the guilty plea taken by the head of the Chicago school system?. Everyone knows that not even a hot stove is safe in Cook County particularly when community organizers are involved. The strumpet who runs the highly successful Chicago school system was trying to shake down a company that she worked for for $2,300,000. She gave them a no-bid contract worth $23,000,000. None of that new math crap for her. She got a dime for each dollar the company got. No big deal. The kids read anyway. Besides, the Illinois pension system is heading straight for the crapper. What’s wrong with filling up the little tin box with a few dollars for her golden years? Also, I t must be noted for the sake of the record that if Baghdad succumbed to irenic serenity Chicago would be the murder capitol of the known universe.

#2 – Is it your contention that contributions to political campaigns are evil per se?

Are you using the perverted Logic that enables modern American use to keep from slipping into the troll filled bowel of cognitive dissonance, it being a place from which no traveler ever returns?

Are you saying in the “eclectically indignant” the way that carriers of extreme “non-malodorous fecal matter syndrome” welcome lest they go mad that campaign contributions from causes that you don’t like are bad while political dollars from causes you support – think abortion, think Teachers’ unions, think manatee suffrage, think about helping gluten laden obese ungendered bullied teens who are plagued by the heartbreak of psoriasis – are good? ‘Fess up. Of course you do. If you didn’t you wouldn’t be able to hector people until they think and live the way you know they should.

#3 – I am going to fight dirty.

Get a copy of the Constitution, the one written in1787. Familiarize yourself with it. Pay particular attention to the First Amendment. Find the part that says that people have the right, a right granted not by others, but by God, “a gift from beyond the stars”, that says they can “petition the government for a redress of grievances”.

Silly me!

In the modern American Liberal universe, a place with neither straight lines nor right angles, it is an ex cathedra truth that money fromGeorge Soros is good, money from Tom Steyer is better, and money from the Koch Brothers should be burned lest it corrupt the Eden we all want to live in.

I know how modern American Liberal pundits agonize over what fair is as in “fair rate of return”. I also know that deep down when no one is looking when you have to positively, absolutely get something across the country overnight you choose FedEx over the Post Office.

Would it mark me as a bounder if I were to point out that the words “profit” and “post office” are destined never to appear in the same sentence? Never, ever.

It is an inconvenient truth that absent profit, humbug snake oil salesmen such as you would never be able to feed yourself, let alone others.

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET