Scholarships and bling-bling

Elgin Jones reports in the South Florida Times that Lauderhill Mayor Richard Kaplan and other city officials have implemented a program to use funds seized from criminal activities to provide $1,000 scholarships to students in the city. They presently have four scholarships available.

Um, four grand, eh? Crime must be way down in Lauderhill. Or maybe they’ve stopped auctioning off seized houses, cars and boats and have taken to donating them to other ‘good causes,’ more deserving than tomorrow’s workforce.

Up the road in Palm Beach County law enforcement agencies are monitoring more than 130 gangs operating in the county.

Jones suggests it may be time to give up on the hardened criminal element and turn our focus to the children in elementary school. I agree. With a 130 gangs trafficking God-knows-what and gang-banging God-knows-who they should take a leaf out of Lauderhill’s book and cough up some seized cash for scholarships.

Lord knows, while the gangs might be light on houses, cars and boats they have wads of crack-cash and plenty of bling-bling to boot.

In 10 years when Lauderhill is crying it has no talent pool Palm Beach County will have a plentiful supply of well-adjusted youngsters ‘just dying’ to get a job down south. After all, with the harden criminal element left unchecked there won’t be much left of Palm Beach County when they graduate.

Ah, mi vida loca.