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>>Haven’t heard about that 8-1/2 square mile [Miami] boondoggle. Fill us in on how it relates to the current election.

Well, Dr. Sowell said this: “Is it really too “complex” to figure out that taking vast amounts of land off the market will make the price of the remaining land far more expensive?”

To find the boondoggle, Google up “Grossman Hammock”. The 8-1/2 square miles are just to the east of that. Big Gumm’nt has great contempt for white rednecks. In this case, they also included lotsa Cuban immigrant campesinos who, after being driven from their country farms by Castro, longed from their tiny SW 8th Street Miami apartments for the old days. They found it here, and when my wife and I worked at the Kendall Gliderport (now also land-grabbed by the Feds) just south of Grossman Hammock in the early ‘80s, it was a favorite post-work tour on the way home. The land was condemmed by the Gumm’nt, and after many a lost court battle, the last of the existing houses is slated for destruction as I write this. Just as city folks looked down on the “drunks and rednecks” (many were) who were displaced at 40-Mile Bend (Ochopee, FL, west of Miami), the City Cubans in Miami did the same to these folks. So, the Gumm’nt pigs out and takes more land off the market. Winners: 1/ Present landowners and real estate developers, 2/ Mining companies (the land is platted as being 2’ higher than it really is; they will “restore” the land by charging the Gumm’nt for scraping off that 2’ and then selling it for $35/ton). 3/ The environmental “mitigators”. The homes, palm trees and the native vegetation are all gone, but the evil non-native Australian pines are left standing, awaiting a lucrative removal contract. 4/ The recently-fattened Gumm’nt agencies, who are actively supervising this and nailing up “No Trespassing / Gumm’nt property” signs.

What’s that about a “dangerous servant and fearful master” I’ve heard? To my FR friends: Vote carefully, very carefully.