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Showing Original Post only (View all)"I don't think poor people should take from the govt" I busted out crying, "How can you SAY that?" [View all]
Every day we get to the gym at 4:45AM and wait for the doors to open..usual group...I stay far away from the Rs....I write letters since 2009 for DEMS and those Rs are not fans !! So we are standing outside the gym and this lady in her 70s ..comes with her huz.....she always wants to chat....this AM I outright asked her if she was an R...."yes, but we don't discuss politics..." You know who says that...Rs..DEMS are eager and proud to discuss politics, in my humble opinion....
Anyway since she is a big Catholic and came to Dad's funeral( he was Catholic priest and died a year ago).....I ask..."because of abortion?" No...then I asked if her parents were Rs...as sometimes in this tiny town you kind of inherit political stripes...No..
HERE IT COMES....
She says " I don't think poor people should take from the govt...get these free things for not working"..now I had a bad weekend...sinusitis/sore throat and broken car...on its last legs and when it goes so does my transportation....
I busted out crying and said "How can you SAY that? In WI single poors/elderly/disabled get pennies a day in FS...then went on to tell her that some folks who live in my HUD bldg make as little as $4grand year..I said "How can you SAY that?" again and I walked away crying..she called after me, but did not approach....when the doors opened I noticed she was whispering to her huz....
It hurts to be poor and it hurts even more when these Rs berate us out of ignorance....they could not survive 1 day in our lives..thank you for listening... I had to tell somebody..
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"I don't think poor people should take from the govt" I busted out crying, "How can you SAY that?" [View all]
jodymarie aimee
Nov 2018
OP
People don't know that the Catholic Church was a powerful supporter of unions.
olegramps
Nov 2018
#14
If you are interested this is my Nov letter...I am rich in many things, just not MONEY.
jodymarie aimee
Nov 2018
#8
Part of the problem that I've noticed is that the rightwingers see what they consider abuse of the
hostalover
Nov 2018
#26
Abuse of ER's? Isn't the ER where republicans told people without insurance to go?
Merlot
Nov 2018
#35
Right-wingers know how to stoke self-righteous sentiment in middle-class voters
sandensea
Nov 2018
#25
There used to be a time when people, including religious, believed in govt. help for poor
lovemydogs
Nov 2018
#46
Yeah, modern Christianity seems to be a perversion of what it used to be.
Zing Zing Zingbah
Nov 2018
#48