When I was a boy, I read about how many children in our country go to bed hungry and I said something to my father, who had suffered starvation during the Great Depression of the 1930s, about how awful that was and he said this:
“No. Awful is waking up in the morning eight hours hungrier and there is still nothing to eat.”
Today, after decades of careful financial manipulation of higher and higher percentages of the national money cache into fewer and fewer extremely wealthy hands, House Speaker John Boehner staunchly protects them from having their multi-trillion dollar tax loopholes plugged to bring back that dinner or, at least, that breakfast, by pompously trumpeting that he will not raise taxes on Americans and suggesting instead that we should take away even more from the poor in the elimination of programs that implement our moral obligation to our fellow human beings.
Of course we have a huge national debt. When your poor and middle class are completely tapped and you still allow these affluence junkies to hoard more, and more, and more, it has to come from somewhere. Of course, when you have reached rock bottom and you keep digging, the foundation gets a little wobbly.
Starvation and bad medical care cause people to have shorter lives. If I take something away from somebody and my doing that causes them to die an untimely death, it’s called murder. I’m just saying.
Harold R. Pettus
Everett
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