March 13, 2016

Kathleen Cannon – President

United Way of Broward County

RE: “Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought  a fool and open it and remove all doubt’ – Some comments on your puerile – non gender specific – comments on how to spend other peoples’ money and why you are the best one to do that as reported in today’s unlinkable Sun Sentinel.

Ms. Cannon,

You begin, in typical modern American Liberal fashion, with the unsustainable premise that making people less free will make them more free plus better to boot.

You mention the $5,000,000,000 to be spent on the 2016 campaign and how it would be better spent by altruistic ideologues – Anybody in mind? – on helping the poor, the old, the lame, and the bullied. I add that the overwhelming majority of that obscene $5,000,000,000 is given voluntarily with the major exception being the $ that unions extort from their members and give to their soul mates in the Democratic Party. 

We have been fighting the War on Poverty for 52 years. It is America’s longest war. It is longer than the Cold War against the Russkies. That one, beginning in 1946, ended in 1989 with the good guys winning.

If $5,000,000,000 gets your knickers knotted what will the $2,000,000,000,000 the country has spent on trying to make the poor less poor do to you?

The results are in.

Not only hasn’t it worked but, would you believe it, we have more poor people who are poorer now than they were before the war was started.

It would have been less destructive to the American body politick if we had taken the cash and burned it, of  course in an environmentally sensitive manner, as a stop gap measure for polar bear drowning fossil fuels. As soon as windmills and Solyndra catch on we’ll be free of this noxious stuff.

As a professional mendicant I applaud you for working for the minimum wage so as to have more money to help the undeserving poor. You have banned all A/Cs in your office, haven’t you? Think of the money saved on your FPL bill as yet more $ to help ungendered acne-laden bully wanabees. 

You end by saying “Just think of the impact that could be made in our country with those dollars.

Better yet, just think of the impact that has been made in our country with those dollars. 

In the holy season of Lent you are commanded to go and sin no more. For your penance begin by keeping your mouth shut.

Kevin Smith