June 12, 2016

Helen Wolt

The Sun Sentinel

500 E. Broward Blvd

Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33394

RE:  “County nonprofits awarded $1,100,000 by Walmart” – Some comments on your report on the transfer of money from the haves to the have-nots in today’s Sun Sentinel.

Ms. Wolt,

I enjoyed your news story on why the profit motive is not only good but that it is great and highly moral.

Thank God Walmart makes a lot of money. And thank God that a majority of shareholders of Walmart countenance the idea that is OK to take money that is theirs and give it to groups that they may oppose on religious, political, or moral grounds.

I guarantee you that with the exception of the people who work there no one is in favor of all the groups that the United Way gives 3^rd party money to. 

But here’s the money question.

If the choice is $15 an hour for new employees versus $50,000 for the United Jewish Community of Broward Food, presumptively non-trayf, Pantry which side would you come down on?

Kevin Smith