That letter that Mike Malloy just read....Quelle horreur!

[marmar]

.... A man from Hialeah, Fla., wrote that he was at the grocery store check out where the clerk rang up his $8.58 food purchase. An elderly woman hanging around the checkout area asked him if she could pay for his grocery bill with her food stamp card and take the cash so she could buy gas to drive her husband to his doctor's appointment.
The guy was skeptical, but talked to the woman and walked out with her to her car, and there was her husband and their empty gas tank. So the guy gave the woman his last $5.



Things are seriously f**ked up in this country. Is this what it's come to? :cry:

[TomInTib]

1. That's what it's down to, marmar.

Even tho I live in one of the wealthiest ZIPs in the country (94920), I have recently begun enjoying the luxury of Public Transportation for a variety of reasons.

Things are really tough out there.

Folks dancing on the edge of the feather.

[amerikat]

2. At least a Dem gave her 5 bucks.

There is still hope>

[angrycarpenter]

3. many, and I mean MANY

sell needed medication to keep food in house or the lights on. Conservatives would just soon punish them for it than do a damn thing to help them out.

I will never forget a conversation I had with a conservative co-worker a few years ago where he said we should cancel all social security payments and send every one back their money. Shocked, I asked him if he was talking about just letting the old people die. He answered and I quote "If they are to stupid to plan for their retirement they should die and I have no sympathy".

He had a rich father who died shortly thereafter. He inherited millions. Makes me want to puke. Happy heart attack Mike, where ever you are I hope you die and I will have no sympathy.

[kevinbgoode]

4. Funny how conservatives who inherit their wealth

without lifting a finger to help themselves can be so arrogant about the plight of others. I constantly hear conservatives scream about the "welfare queens" and all the people taking their tax money. . .hell, in one forum someone bitched about having to pay so many taxes AND repay his student loans. . .as if the taxpayers didn't underwrite his education in public schools.

I've come to the conclusion that these people are all about taking from others. They don't mind the education, for example, even though they know their tuition doesn't come anywhere near to footing the bill. They just don't feel like they are supposed to pay it forward when it's time for them to help pay for everyone else.

They don't have any problem with WalMart employees, or factory workers, paying taxes so THEY can get a professional degree. But they sure as hell aren't ever going to help anyone else out. They are too wrapped up in the idea that they earned it ALL themselves. . .

[BuelahWitch]

6. Hopefully he'll never have a days luck with those millions

"Trust fund babies" like that, who will NEVER have to worry about planning for anything should keep their fucking mouths shut.

[grassfed]

5. but what about Hamas?!

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. three months ago I paid the last twenty in

somebody else's grocery bill... inflation you see so her money was not enough

I've paid for troopers milk at the PX (ok that last one is not shocking)

And right now burning the wedding photos of a friend to CDs, they coud not afford the photographer

When I married ten years ago... my dad paid for that... and noboy would help pay somebody else's groceries

Thngs are at or over the breaking point

[Peace Patriot]

8. Things are not really all that fucked up--when people give their last $5 to someone

in need. Pass it forward!

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"Things are seriously f**ked up in this country. Is this what it's come to?" :cry:

We are oppressed, yes, by Global Corporate Predators. And they are looting us blind, and seem bent on destroying our country--in my opinion because of our potential, as a justice-loving, peace-loving, progressive people, to stop them, for everyone's sake. To dismantle these corporations, pull their corporate charters, and seize their assets for the common good. They fear us--because we are potentially the most progressive force on earth. They are squeezing us. But we've been here before, you know, in the 1920s, leading up to the Great Depression. Same sort of fascists running things. One of the great things we found out about ourselves in that era is that we can rise to the challenge, smite the oppressors and create a good country.

This guy from Hialeah, Fla, may not realize it, but he is why. That generous impulse is far, far more typical of Americans than, say, Bush. We love to help. We rush to natural disasters to help. We are creative and industrious, and deeply attached to social justice, to the rule of laws not men, to democracy, to the poor having a fair chance. Those qualities will triumph, because that is who we are. And the man in Hialeah a fine example of it. Got a problem? Here, take my last five bucks.

[bdamomma]

9. Sad very sad.

all this heartache of others may unite us all, we are all finding ourselves in the same boat.