Obama family serves Thanksgiving dinner to homeless and vets

[Fairgo]

1. Thanks for that, I suppose

It's good to see the moment when our veterans are taken, en masse, off the streets and fed and clothed and given a place to sleep and a hot shower and an apartment and health care and training...

...I assume that is what happened after the dinner. Certainly given the trillions of dollars for war, this would be a simple, affordable, and obligatory clause in the soldier's social contract.

If immediate help was not at hand, who was there when they filed out of the building back into the street? What did our representative say to them? Did they thank them for their service and apologise for abandoning them in their time of need?

I am truly interested to know, where is the thanks in thanksgiving? Where is the voice of the vet in this press release? Where is the picture of the vet's family?

I do not lay god-awful social injustice and societal shame at the president's feet. I am sure he has been doing all that he possibly can these past 7 years. But these feel-good stories, with invisible backdrop of thankful vets all cap-in-hand grateful for their cafeteria trays, the giggling pictures of noblesse oblige, and the cherry-picked garnish of 3.1 million dollars worth of holiday cheer - it all turns to ashes in my mouth knowing that it's winter on the storm grate, and the next photo op is a month away.

Merry Christmas.