June 9, 2019 Nancy Ancrum – Editorial Page Editor The Miami Herald

June 9, 2019

Nancy Ancrum – Editorial Page Editor

The Miami Herald

RE:

Ms. Ancrum,

I like to check the Irish sports section – the obituary section for the uninitiated – of the Star Ledger, New Jersey’s paper of record, sort of. You can take the guy out of Jersey but you can’t take Jersey out of the guy.

Among the more interesting stories from up North was the one that said it was “borderline criminal” that there weren’t more chicks headlining down the shore this summer. [2 quick digressions: #1 – Of course they didn’t say “chicks”. If they did, they would have called for the Word Police to flog them a la Henry the Second after the Becket “misunderstanding”. #2 – People from Jersey never ever go to the beach. They go “down the shore”. Period.] 

I’ll say this for modern American liberal media pundits:

They never let you down

“Borderline criminal?” I am sure that from the undiscovered country Frank Sinatra is wringing his hands that he didn’t have to sit down to pee. Ditto for Frankie Valli, John Bon Jovi, and Bruce Springsteen. Let me add Jerome Hines to that list.

Then I got to today’s Herald.

I read the Page 1 story on housing with interest and amusement. It was well written and contained, of course, several screeching dog whistles, particularly for fans of History. Logic, and folks with practical hands-on experience in the housing business. I made a few notes predicated on one observation: “The upturned neck awaits the ax.”

I put my pen back in its scabbard when I read your editorial.

“The Outrage of being Priced out of Paradise”

The title alone suggests that there is a small band of willful men, malefactors of great wealth, all of whom are filthy rich, most of whom are White and support Trump who have successfully colluded – “colluded?” You betcha – to keep poor people, women of color, single moms with children in need of a good Ritalin program or can I just say “people who are unlucky in life’s lottery” that there is an underserved constituency of hind tit suckers in need of a Bernie or a Kamala or Mayor Bootygoo or – Damn it, AOC is too  young – to raise the flag of revolution.

You say in your editorial that “It is a crying shame.” You had me at a stage of lachrymosity approaching, if unchecked, terminal enuresis.

You snapped me out of it by suggesting, without a hint of humor or wit, that “New York-style rent control legislation” might be in order. I did say that modern American Liberals never let you down.  and

Regardless of the problem, the rubric of the solution is always the same. Somebody from the government, usually bright, always well-intended, will decide what is fair, what is good, and what is right. Except when they don’t. Even when SNAFU approaches FUBAR, as long as their intentions are good, they keep digging. There’s as pony somewhere in the pile of horse shit.

The evidence of your own eyes demands that since it has never worked it will never work. Anticipating that this time it will be different and this time it will work is specious and asinine. Modern American Liberals, always substituting feelings for ideas know that expectations, forgive me, trump results. 

Rent controls lead to Pruitt-Igoe, Curries Woods, slums, $15,000 a month apartments and $5,000,000 starter condos  Look it up.

You end, yet again by trumpeting “The triumph of hope over experience.”

“Hopefully, the Herald investigation will awaken our 

leaders to address this outrage once and for all.”

And that will happen as soon as my brother the hunchback straightens up.

Here’s a plan. Speed up Global Warming. Speed up rising sea levels. Nothing like having Flipper doing back flips 10 miles inland to bring down rents.

Kevin Smith

WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET

PS – I believe Charles Murray covers this in “Losing Ground”