[Vision2020] Pat Kraut lives in Subsidized Housing.

[Donovan Arnold]

Pat is such a hypocrite for wanting to get rid of programs for the poor, she 
is living in subsidized housing you know. So if she REALLY felt that way she 
would give up living in her apartment and move into a non-subsidized 
apartment and pay back the taxpayer for all they gave her. But she won't 
because she is a hypocritical.

Donovan J Arnold.


>From: "Joan Opyr" <auntiestablishment at hotmail.com>
>To: "Vision2020 Moscow" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Leaving a few children behind
>Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:22:43 -0700
>
>Pat writes:
>
> >Of all the silly answers...I am poor, twit! The only bitterness I feel is 
>that of a regular tax payer who is >having their hardearned pay sucked into 
>programs for the 'poor' with no end in sight. I can assure you >there are 
>many more programs to 'help' the poor (that do not much more than keep them 
>poor) than >there is for the middle class barely able to make ends meet for 
>helping those poor souls.  As to my >faith, your comments are the ones of 
>someone who knows nothing about it. I use the word ingrate >because any 
>time these migrant workers protest anything they wave the Mexican flag in 
>our faces. >Well, go back to Mexico if its so great! Try reading "The Enemy 
>Within" by Donald Savage. You just >might learn something to make you think 
>more deeply about this subject. It is as always multi-faceted.
>
>
>You're poor, are you?  Unemployed, living in your car, no health insurance, 
>and well past the two-year lifetime limit on Idaho's notoriously 
>parsimonious family assistance program?  Or was that you I saw on TV with 
>Sally Struthers, shoeless in the slums of El Salvador?  If you have a car 
>that runs, food to eat, a job to go to, health benefits, and, dare I say 
>it, fifteen bucks a month to blow on a First Step Internet account, then 
>you are not especially well acquainted with skid row.  Hell, if you have 
>only one or two of these things, you're better off than 99% of the world's 
>population.
>
>Perhaps your life has been hard.  Perhaps it's been tight and squeezed and 
>not all that you'd hoped it would be.  If so, then you have my sympathy, 
>but it's a limited sympathy.  It's bounded by the knowledge that your 
>experience has failed to make you compassionate; instead, you're 
>hard-hearted, bitter, bigoted and unpleasant.  A lot of us grew up poor.  
>We lived on generic brand macaroni and cheese, we shopped for school 
>clothes at the Goodwill, and there were months when we couldn't afford to 
>pay both the electric bill and buy gas for the car, so my mother walked the 
>miles to work.  But there were people worse off than we were back then, and 
>there are people far worse off now.  What I want is for those people to be 
>better off.  I want their kids to have access to education and not be 
>forever trapped in grinding, soul-destroying, endless poverty.  I want them 
>to have free school breakfast and free school lunch, a decent place to 
>live, a stable home life, and access to public education.  When they get to 
>college, I want them to have Pell grants and guaranteed student loans.
>
>I'll go a step further -- I want the poor today to have access to programs 
>and assistance that weren't available to me when I was growing up.  I want 
>there to be more programs to lift people out of poverty, not fewer.  I want 
>to erase the damage done during the Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush II eras 
>and pick up the threads of the Great Society.  No one in this rich country 
>should be going to bed hungry; no one should be without housing or health 
>care.  Faith, hope, and charity abideth, and the greatest of these is 
>charity.
>
>A few months ago, Pat, you told the members of this list that you had 
>benefited from George W. Bush's tax cuts.  Bully for you.  You can be 
>grateful for that, and also for the fact that you make enough money that 
>the federal government has deemed that some small amount can be "sucked" 
>from your tight, screaming, Krusty Krab wallet and used to provide paltry 
>assistance to those who can only dream of being in your tax bracket.  And, 
>if you can't be grateful, then you might remind yourself that there's 
>someone in Rwanda or Sudan or Bangladesh who'd be happy to take your place.
>
>Sincerely,
>Squidward (AKA Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment)
>
>PS: If I had Michael Savage's "Enemy Within," I'd increase my intake of 
>fiber.  Strong black coffee, a copy of People magazine, and a little alone 
>time with Mr. Commode . . . that's what Michael Savage needs. Get more from 
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