and a good nap after a bottle, just like her father.
For those of us on the net that know a good bit of your history (and there are a lot of us), do you really think this was a smart thing to say, William?
She doesn't know about Congress yet, either, and I envy her that. A few short hours from now, unemployment benefits for more than a million people will expire because Congress could not be bothered to renew them, because helping the neediest among us is no longer the Christian thing to do in the brave new world of 21st century America.
Charlie Pierce, as usual, said it best: "This decision was consciously taken by a Congress so soaked in electorally convenient religiosity that its members believe that people -- other people, naturally, and their children -- will be strengthened in their moral character by completely avoidable deprivation. That the mothers and fathers out there, avoiding the gazes of their children because of the simple expectations there that they cannot meet, will be better, stronger, and moral people for the pain that causes them to look away as the lights on the tree begin to blur with their tears."
Take the emotional terrorism angle straight out of the box, huh?
Did you ever stop and think how paying people a pittance (yeah, I did that on purpose) to simply exist is one of the worst insults you could throw at them? Have you considered how much resentment and heart-hardening you cause by forcing those of us with jobs to pick up the tab for the cost when we are struggling ourselves?
Considering your luck to be born a winner of life's lottery (
*cough* trust fund baby
*cough*), I doubt you know much past the end of your own glowing nose, William. You've never had to live with the consequences brought on by the greedy and evil; you've had mommy paying your bills. But, I guess it's all good, isn't it? As long as you have the luxury to sit on your ass and pound out mediocre shit about things for which you have no experience or perspective, to be read by those whom you have voted to keep in chains, all in the name of a faith about which you know nothing.
You are beneath the contempt of even the "graveyard rats", whom you were going to feed to your cat from the bottom of your shoe, or some such nonsense...
I could speak of a government divorced from the people it supposedly exists to serve, of skyrocketing poverty and joblessness and homelessness, of food banks overwhelmed by need, of veterans and old people used as bargaining chips, of children born in the last five years who have never known Christmas at all because Christmas ceased to exist in all but name after their families were financially obliterated. I could speak of other families awash in money, the titans of Wall Street and the banking industry, for whom those "Buy a luxury car for Christmas" commercials are made. They will eat well, thanks to the money they stole, but because they are too big to fail, and because they own Congress, they remain untouched by the law for the serial crimes they have committed, and continue to commit.
"Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won." Barak Hussein Obama, Jan 2009You voted for it, you own it, William, so there is no need to cry about it if you can't figure out the root cause of the problem.
Also, the only way "Christmas" can ever
not be known by children is if the focus is on the material side of the holiday; the very side you bitch about in the same breath as lamenting the toils of the poor waifs. For the rest of the civilized adults in the world, Christmas ceased being about how much loot you can haul in when we figured out the greatest gift on that holy day was given, freely and gladly, before we were even born.
A lesson, it seems, you still fail to grasp.
Because there must be hope, because I will always try to find hope, because there is always reason for hope, I choose instead to write about Laney Brown of West Reading, Pennsylvania...
Laney Brown could be my daughter, or yours. We are all our brother's and sister's keeper, and so Laney Brown belongs to each and every one of us. That so many people came out to give her comfort, to grant her wish, and to comfort her family in this darkest of hours, is proof positive to me that far more people believe that than don't.
If you're that worried about it, William, maybe you should stop putting people in office who seek only to enrich themselves at the expense of the rest of us.
Nah, what the Hell am I thinking? It's not like
you have to suffer the consequences of your politics...
