[Vision2020] Fw: A $50 Lesson

[Saundra Lund]

And, of course, attitudes like that are precisely why the intelligent among us refuse to "trust" that local charity, as advocated by the Unthinking Right, tea baggers, and some so-called Christians is sufficient, and we demand instead a safety net not dependent on the generosity of people like you for the least amongst us.

Because more likely than not, that "homeless" guy is a war veteran with invisible injuries.  Or has a heart or other physical condition that makes it impossible for him to do physical labor without the medical care he needs but doesn't have access to  because he manages to make $3000 a year in Idaho, which makes him ineligible for Medicaid.  Or he suffers from clinical depression or some other mental illness worsened by morons who refuse to hire him for jobs he can do because he's "mental" and who think that he should pull himself up by his bootstraps which is impossible to do when barefoot.  Or he's 75 years old & homeless because his pension plan was raided by greedy people -- like those on the Unthinking Right -- who care only about feathering their own nests rather than having character, which is epidemic in this country now.  Or a thousand other scenarios which the Unthinking Right never thinks about yet finds appropriate to make the butts of moronic jokes like this.

Funny, huh, how what you thought was a joke speaks a lot more about those who relish retelling it -- that would be you, Roger -- than it does about political parties or disadvantaged individuals because fortunately for this nation, not ALL Republicans belong to the Unthinking Right.

Thanks, though, for yet another example I can use when presented with "Trust us . . . we'll take care of the needy in our community, so it's safe to gut government social services to get rid of all that waste."


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Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 23:47:34 -0800
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Subject: A $50 Lesson