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In reply to the discussion: Romney: Democrats Don’t Want People To Own Pools Or Golf Courses [View all]Darklady
(5 posts)I hadn't really thought of it that way but... wow. Now I feel like I need to apologize to Mittens Romney in person.
Here I was just thinking about myself; how I'm about to lose my apartment of five years because the landlords are raising the rent on my one-bedroom apartment another $500, how I have no idea how I'm going to box up my place, find another, and move while both working and recovering from surgery on both of my wrists, how I feel SO lucky to be temporarily on Oregon's public health plan so I can fix my wrists so I can keep using my hands to write for a living, how I don't know where the previously homeless man I have provided shelter to for the past year in exchange for housework will go if I can't accommodate him wherever I wind up.
I was thinking about my 80-year-old mom and my 42-year-old MR/DD sister and what will happen to the latter when the former is no longer able to care for her. I certainly can't provide her with the level of care and stability that she needs.
But after reading about the swimming pools and golf courses, I realize how selfish I am for thinking about myself instead of the "job creators" who have been so afraid of being in my situation that they've squirreled away all the money they would doubtlessly have spent on jobs eventually. I just need to give them a little bit more money and maybe they'll feel safer sharing a few coppers with the poor, although all we think about is ourselves.