Bigmack
This country is ****ed in the head!..
Sorry for the rant, but it is a well deserved rant.
Wednesday, I was on a special insider's tour of a large zoo-like institution in the Southwest... I won't be more specific.
They do great work with endangered animals and the like. Great place.
We toured their hospital facility. As modern as any people hospital. Set up for surgery and exams on animals from mice to giraffes. All the bells and whistles.. blood-gas analyzers, x-ray, intensive care unit, recovery rooms.... The nurses station looked like the modern space-age station...... monitors, computers, etc.
As we neared home - in our very little, rural desert town, I spied the local homeless schizophrenic wandering down the road. The guy hangs around town during the days.. talking to himself... and sleeps in an abandoned shed on the outskirts of town. He eats whatever he can find/scrounge. He's cold in the winter and hot (117) in the summer. He's dressed in rags.
The cops have tried to get him to a better place, but he drifts back. He's not - in the strict legal definition - a danger to himself or others, but his chances of dying from the heat or cold or hunger are certainly good.
Why is it that this country takes better care of animals than they take care of people like him?
The Fascist in me wants some agency to clap a net over him and take him somewhere where he can get food, shelter, and medical care. If we had such a place. The do-gooder in me takes him food and blankets. Sometimes, he's so paranoid that he doesn't trust the food or clothing.
I don't begrudge the animals the best of health care.
I just want us to take care of our fellow citizens who are ill.
We have the best weapons systems in the world.... but we can't take care of our own.
Thus the "country is ****ed in the head"...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022259635
"As we neared home..."
Hey primitive, you claim to care about those who are in need, and yet you wonder what's wrong with the country? The question is:
What's wrong with you?You have a home, so take him in. You know, this "The gov't should be blah, blah, blah..." has worn thin years ago, you little anti-American trash. This guy needs help, so
TAKE HIM IN.Otherwise, you're all talk and no action. Got it, son?
That goes for everyone of you left-wing kooks (pardon the redundancy).
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