When I was 24 I used to tell my young son, love makes the world go around. He at the young age of 5 said, no, Money does Mama. I argued with him for years as this was wrong. How many times have you told your children , that is too expensive put that back. How many have thought about a nice juicy steak and wonder what it would be like not to have to start planning at 3 PM what you are going to have to put in a pot and make your version of pot luck.
Mitt Romney does not have a clue. Well that works two ways. Romney has no clue to live our lives and we have no clue how to live his. Most, not all cannot connect to this guy. When I went to the Naval observatory and had food served to me by chefs who served Kings, I found out...those people do not eat like we do. They don't dress like we do..They don't have a clue. These were Clinton's folks but the fancy life had made their memories dim to really know what getting by or poverty is. Oh ...poverty and hunger in some cases , in most cases does not look the same in America as it does in Ethiopia. Many in destitute poverty are homeless or about to homeless and down to 50 cents and go to bed hungry and some in houses with roofs not thatched huts still go to bed hungry or want a break. Many people are very content to consider themselves middle class at bringing into the household 30,000 a year for a family of 5 or 6. Guess what? I have a message for them... YOU ARE NOT MIDDLE CLASS.
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The other thing that is so different from Ethopia or Pakistan or any other really poor country is the family bonding of sharing. That bond of sharing from sister to sister or Uncle, Aunt, etc for the most part does not exist in America. ME ME ME ME and Mine mine mine mine...........all the time. In other countries I have heard that families look out for one another. The only place I have seen in recent years of looking out for one another is in this community. I know of few other places that this happens which IMO makes us all family. We rally. Can you imagine Mitt or Ann Romney tipping a hard working waitress more than 20 percent? The man who loves to fire people. Barbara Bush was reported to never leave a tip. I ask why? What makes these people so stingy.
Tonight a young woman came over as my daughter went to her house to help her store her furniture as she is planning a trip to Hunstville to spend several weeks with her dying Viet Nam Vet Daddy. He is dying of brain cancer. He is 63. He and his wife live modestly but somewhat comfortable. I put in a claim and gave information to her on what to do on fast track knowing it is probably too late. I also gave her info for Widows benefits and burial preprations from the VA for a Veteran funeral an benfet entitled to him. Here is the kicker. After I worked all evening on Mothers Day to help this young woman, she tells me in tears that her brother could have helped with this.
She told me to google his name. I did. This guy was a hot shot and I mean hot shot lawyer in Alabama and a full partner of an upscale law firm. He argued cases at the supreme court. The woman of two teenagers was in the process of being evicted as well and this guy was her brother. The teenage son said, "Uncle Ron is really rich but money has gone to his head and he don't recognize us as family". I said, "Does he acknowledge your Grandpa"? He said, Nah, not really. Grandpa don't have enough money. He don't have time for anyone but his own kids. He spends time on the golf course and buying more houses and gives his money to some guy named Sessions in government.
i had about five papers of veteran benefit info in my hand and had to excuse myself.
I went outside, and just screamed. I was so angry. I am beginning to really get so mad at these kind of people. The kind of people who let family ..VETERANS as well , and PARENTS as well depend on people like me who is not even middle class search and lend hands from me to my kids while they golf their lives away trying to keep people like Jeff Sessions in office. I wondered how much sacrafice Lisa ( I will call her)
is making to make a 9 hour trip from Florida to Alabama to see her Daddy one more time. We just helped them pack her Mom and Dad from Florida when he got very sick and was gone before I knew his illness was caused by his service in Nam. She never told me he was a vet. Her son dated my daughter for awhile. The teenager John I will call him took the pen and was writing all the info down about his Grandpa and me handing him my phone number to call day or night. Lisa was crying and saying she wasn't too worried about the trip even with the radiator overheating and someone up there would fix it right. She bought the car from another republican asshole who offered her a so called good deal ..when she sold her good truck for rent money. The car has been in the shop more than on the road. They are storing their furniture and hope to find another place if and when they come bakc. I suspect they will come back. Can you imagine Sessions or Romney or any of the well to do trying to fix a radiator, depend on kindness of people you only met 5 months ago to help you pack and help prepare for a military funeral with emotions running wild, and then hugging you and handing you a box of video tapes to say Thank you. I really really had a blender of emotions. I felt so very bad for her as she is trying to make this hard trip and mad that I had no help other than my advocacy and daughter to make things easier and mad that her brother cared more about the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Jeff Sessions than his dying Daddy who he himself could have already advocated and won a disability for him.
Did this brother ever know like we know, what it is like to wonder how 200.00 and that is a lot compared to some, last two weeks with groceries and gas? Has Romney ever had to look in the eyes of a combat vet and watch a grieving family (at least some of them) and know how it feels to say, " That's all I have". How many even consider those who make less than 100,000 a year even human.
Poverty in America appears and shows up here everyday. It shows up on Daily Kos,
in the drug stores, in the schools and in our homes but we like it don't we? We love unexpected emergencies. We just live for those beans and rice. We just love to tell people we like, Sorry, I am not much better off that you. We relish the idea of our 7 year olds waking us up at 7 AM when a car hits a transformer and knocks off power to ask "Mommy did you pay the light bill"? ( That actually happened Saturday morning to me). Why should teenagers of their youthful times be so worried over their Mama's and radiators and why should little kids have to get used to the word NO. We can't do that this month. Why? Because this is our life. This seems to be the life of many military and non military families alike in this greedy America.
I am so fed up with the mentality of the upper smucks. I am so fed up with them thinking we like this kind of non poverty that IS poverty. We want to do better.
They robbed us of our homes, cars, bankrupted us and cost us jobs. Screw those selfish Hell bound greedy bastards because I would bet all I know about advocacy that boy got his education thanks to his daddy's blood that was shed on a battlefield on the GI Bill.
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