I just read the diary from "The Bucking Jenny" and felt like there were a couple of things worth saying.
First, it reminded me of the quote from the Statue of Liberty:
"Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
I then thought, when did we lose that sense of community? Our willingness to help other people. When did we become a society that was in such a hurry to deny people the benefit of the doubt, to assume that anyone asking for help was just lazy instead of in actual need, to no longer be willing to reach out a helping hand and instead look to slap people down?
Ask yourself and your friends and associates the following question: Are you willing to deny someone in who is in real need of help in order to ensure that people who are "mooching" off the system don't get something they don't deserve? Or are you willing to risk helping people who are "mooching" in order to ensure that the people who are in need get the help they need?
If the federal government came to me and said "We're going to take an extra 2% of your income in order to make sure that the people who need help get it. 1% of it may not go to people who really need help, but the other 1% will." My reaction would be - here's the check. What would yours be?
That seems to me to be the difference between the two parties. One is willing to risk "wasting" some money in order to make sure the people that need help can get that help. The other is willing to shut the door on everybody in order to ensure that not a single person can get help if they don't need it. I don't want to live in a country like that. That's why we need to fight to make sure that the people who represent us want to help everyone, and that they ALWAYS err on the side of helping too many instead of too little.