My friend Wendy is DEAD: she couldn't buy broccoli

[freshwest]

22. Oh, yes, the prayer dismissal, meaning not my problem. It's also used as a curse.

And I'm not talking about the individual's inability to pay for another's health care. It's the acceptance of the inequality in our country, and keeping others down.

The same ones who pull that line, love doing those charitable works. They know it won't get it done, and that will be God's doing, not theirs. It's the reason that faith and trust in that higher power can be a cop out. Because if we have no power really, we don't have to really change things, do we?

We're not responsible, it's all beyond our little minds. After all, we can't. 'We're just poor little sheep, who have gone astray.'

Horse manure.

I know Christians who spend time and effort on this and it's mainly ego-driven, but they won't admit it. It means lower taxes for them, and they still get to keep their position. An example would be some ladies I know who get together to feed the homeless.

Now mind you, the homeless have to leave their place to come to the church and get a meal. One meal only, can't be giving more, there are so many, you know?

And if they can't get there in time to be served for this once a month bonanza, they are in the wrong. Because there is chaos in the lives of the poor, they don't have vehicles to get themselves there, etc.

If they came and the food is gone before they arrived, though before the posted time for the meal to end, I asked, 'What then?' Their answer, 'They knew better.'

I asked, 'Well, if it's only one meal, and they have to pay bus fare or walk for miles, is it worth it?'

This idea was initially met with harrumphes, but then silence, as they also grumbled that the poor were not grateful for their labors, of which they complained mightily and patted each other profusely on the back.

I said, 'Perhaps if they had a house or a place to live and cook, you could be saved all of trouble.' You see, we are talking about doing 'works' that are their form of praying in public, which Jesus forbade. As usual my statement was about something obvious, but not fitting with the cozy feelings they wanted to enjoy.

To alleviate the situation in a just way, would require what progressives did in the past, providing housing. But we know what the problem with that is, because the media has told us all about it. 'Those people' in public housing, well, they don't behave properly.

In other words, since they are not being thrifty and hard-working enough to afford their own, their morals are suspect and their details must be made public for the public to look over and judge. Despite the reasons that they may not make the mark to own a home, they are forever in the wrong.

Part of the problem, as George Carlin stated, is the use of the term 'homelessness' instead of 'houselessness.' He said something like 'home' is an intangible term and I take that to mean, as he did, stop fooling around. Because the problem is tangible, fungible, whatever, and it's related to social class, property, and wealth. It's solvable, it's been solved before.

And since when do we as commoners, feel it useful to regurgitate the terms of those who call themselves, in complete opposite meaning, as that's a game they play, 'job creators, producers, and moral,' while they call the masses 'parasites, worthless mouths, immoral' etc.?

The media gets orgasmic about big donations from 'philanthropists,' but ignore the reason for the need:

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary. Martin Luther King, Jr.