May 1, 2016

Gary Stein

The Sun Sentinel

RE: The conversion continues – Some comments on your now apparent journey from the dark side to truth, justice, and the American way

Big Stein, 

I see the spectre of John Stossel descending, penumbra-like, on you like it was propelled down the slippery slopes of the dreaded chilling effects.

Pop quiz – When it absolutely, positively has to be there the next day do you ever, ever think of the Post Office? Remember, God is watching.

Your column on the Broward Board of Education spending – scratch that – not spending the $800,000,000 [eight hundred million dollars] fraudulently obtained from the credit cards of the voters of Broward County November last would have gained a favorable nod from Milton Friedman.

I will spare you the sermon about the failures of modern American Liberalism. If I were to list them and then print them I would need a quire of foolscap and several large ink cartridges. 

Here it is in a nutshell in one simple sentence. 

They all spring form the sacred spring called “not for profit”.

It enables Bernie Sanders, and God Bless him because compared to Hillary Clinton, as foetid a sack of redolent eel shit as ever seen and smelled by the body politic, to sound like Disraeli. A thriving unicorn ranch, tended by non-feral sasquatches, will be found in Atlantis, a place which settled science says is at the bottom of the Bermuda Triangle where ever the Hell that might be, before anything he says begins to make sense. Modern American Liberalism is sustained, it thrives on and cannot prosper without the existence of the continuing “triumph of hope over experience”.

Stay with me on this.

2 car funerals.

Wet dreams.

Hitting the floor if you fell out of bed.

Finding your ass using only one hand.

What they have in common is that they are things that the apostles of and true believers in modern American Liberalism can and do mess up. And they do it over and over and over again.

Modern American Liberalism is judged on expectations. Results are not pratr of the equation. It’s what you say you are going to do rather than what you actually do that counts.  Red Lines, calm seas, cooling earth, shovel ready jobs, keep your doctor ad nauseam.

                             Read the next sentence carefully. I’ll type slowly.

If you can’t punish failure you can’t reward success.

I will grant you 2 “not-for-profit” exceptions. Mother Teresa and Seal Team 6

Continue your journey. You have many fans rooting for you.

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET