before they can be freed from conventional thinking and prejudice.
HOW MANY TIMES, for example, did we hear from red-staters who were hit hard by tornados or Hurricane Katrina or some other disaster - and THAT was the one thing that finally forced it to occur to them that the federal government WAS something good to have around, to rely on for help in time of great need? "Oh gee, well, uh, I guess there ARE times when the gumnnnt is a good thing..."
That whole thing about walking in someone else's shoes, I suppose. But on the other hand, I hate to see it have to come to that. I don't want there to be ANYBODY in a dead-end struggle just to get by week-by-week, as this post described. NOBODY should have to live like that. Especially with kids to support. Why should a family have to decide who gets the hot dog and bun, and who has to make do with just the bun? It's just fucked. And at the same time, my mind wandered over to the 46 BILLION dollars that EACH of the koch brothers can boast having. EACH of them. That's an obscene amount of money even if it was their combined total. What does one person do with 46 BILLION dollars? How many houses can you live in? How many estates? How many cars can you drive at one time? RIDICULOUS. And just think what all that money could do to supplement the incomes of families like this one? OR actually CREATE jobs rather than socking it all away in hidey-holes like Bermuda and Switzerland and such locales in which you can hoard your money. You better do more with it than just support the Ballet in New York City or some such place. And I say that as a supporter of the arts, a big believer in supporting the arts, and somewhat of an artist myself. Sometimes it's more important to support families' ability to EAT.
THIS is where I start leaning toward mandatory redistribution of income.
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