Who Are Florida's Real Enemies? Fred Grimm Explains

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The Miami Herald's Fred Grimm is probably Florida's resident expert drollerist, and his drollery is seldom so barbed or smart as it was in Wednesday's column: "To Legislature, enemy is us." Check it out, if you're in the mood for some lightly depressing weekend reading.

"Gotta have us some enemies," he writes. "Enemies being 'bout as necessary to politicking as money."

He then explains who the enemy is this season, and it turns out it's just about everybody -- everybody, that is, who lacks sufficient media acumen, cash, or clout to deflect blame for our current messes onto some other patsy.


Teachers are enemies, we discover, which is why we ripped away their tenure without funding their performance raises. Their students are the enemies, which is why we're bilking them to the tune of $400 each. Incredibly, in this brave new world of libertarian cutcutcut, even the subjects they study are enemies: "History, calculus, analytical geometry, anatomy, zoology, and Spanish" no longer count as "core curricula" and are therefore disposable.

Kids who wear droopy pants, school boards, public workers, judges, the developmentally disabled -- there are a whole lot of enemies, and you can read about them here. (One class that Grimm neglects to mention is "people who photograph cows," even though he broke the story that first identified them as enemies. Jesus! There's so many enemies, Fred Grimm can't even keep track! Unless, that is, he's leaving out cow-photogs for darker reasons. What's your game, Grimm? Are you an enemy now too?)

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LIBIntOrg
LIBIntOrg

Please do not misrepresent Libertarianism, which advocates voluntary programs, and attempt to associate Libertarianism with conservatives in the legislature who have other motives. For information on Libertarians at work worldwide, please see http://www.Libertarian-Interna...

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