Comments on: Spreading the Wealth http://emergentink.com/2008/10/22/spreading-the-wealth/ greater than the sum of its parts Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:06:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Juventus http://emergentink.com/2008/10/22/spreading-the-wealth/comment-page-1/#comment-556 Juventus Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:17:59 +0000 http://emergentink.com/?p=395#comment-556 Admittedly, I did have a naughty chuckle reading this particular article on “ Spreading the Wealth” I had images of Sarah Palin with marbles in her mouth, a la Professor Higgins and in high school with foreign students, for a speed ESL skills course. All that money on cloths, wow, it’s really sad, it makes me really wonder where have our priorities gone? Did the RNC or whomever, feel we needed to see her in a particular way more conducive to appropriate VP attire? I know this much to be true, last week before I went to work. I always make sure I see my little boy is on his school bus, and off I zoom to work. A family has moved into our neighborhood due to lost jobs and a defaulted mortgage and bad luck with health issues. They now stay with a great grandmother. This child waits with my child for the school bus, it’s been cold of late and I always bundle up my lovely son, way too much and way too tight. As I looked at this particular child I noticed they had no coat, no gloves or warm hat. They mentioned some of their clothing items had been lost in their hasty move. My heart hit the floor; I felt a sick pain in my pit of my stomach, of such sadness and sheer despair. Rushing into my home I remembered I had a huge bag of my daughters cloths, with a great Gap pink heavy warm coat and just enough gloves and hats for a good couple of years. We sell most of our children’s cloths to a consignment store, much to my son’s chagrin, he hates to part with “his stuff’ but heck, you want that video game, well you better contribute, tough love, or just life lessons, you can decide. My point is not my martyrdom, but here on my road in our town in our America, people are suffering and it hurts, not because I’m a bleeding heart, but because we should care. Did keeping up with the Joneses cost America? Wanting instant gratification and not being able to pay it back. Lack of conservatism and true family values lost on the way, I have no idea. I know this much, seeing a VP candidate pay $150,000 for cloths sends America the wrong message. Greed and excess is not good, those days are gone and if our Government sends us the same message that it’s ok, well I guess were due for more of the same. “Common sense is not so common” by Voltaire, one of my favorite quotes. Admittedly, I did have a naughty chuckle reading this particular article on “ Spreading the Wealth” I had images of Sarah Palin with marbles in her mouth, a la Professor Higgins and in high school with foreign students, for a speed ESL skills course.
All that money on cloths, wow, it’s really sad, it makes me really wonder where have our priorities gone? Did the RNC or whomever, feel we needed to see her in a particular way more conducive to appropriate VP attire? I know this much to be true, last week before I went to work. I always make sure I see my little boy is on his school bus, and off I zoom to work. A family has moved into our neighborhood due to lost jobs and a defaulted mortgage and bad luck with health issues. They now stay with a great grandmother.
This child waits with my child for the school bus, it’s been cold of late and I always bundle up my lovely son, way too much and way too tight. As I looked at this particular child I noticed they had no coat, no gloves or warm hat. They mentioned some of their clothing items had been lost in their hasty move. My heart hit the floor; I felt a sick pain in my pit of my stomach, of such sadness and sheer despair.
Rushing into my home I remembered I had a huge bag of my daughters cloths, with a great Gap pink heavy warm coat and just enough gloves and hats for a good couple of years. We sell most of our children’s cloths to a consignment store, much to my son’s chagrin, he hates to part with “his stuff’ but heck, you want that video game, well you better contribute, tough love, or just life lessons, you can decide.
My point is not my martyrdom, but here on my road in our town in our America, people are suffering and it hurts, not because I’m a bleeding heart, but because we should care.
Did keeping up with the Joneses cost America? Wanting instant gratification and not being able to pay it back. Lack of conservatism and true family values lost on the way, I have no idea. I know this much, seeing a VP candidate pay $150,000 for cloths sends America the wrong message.
Greed and excess is not good, those days are gone and if our Government sends us the same message that it’s ok, well I guess were due for more of the same.

“Common sense is not so common” by Voltaire, one of my favorite quotes.

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