I don't know if I could be on those front lines like you are Tessa. For real. The spitting into the winds thing of needing to be heard through the money- which seems to be the bottom line when it comes to getting CARE to those who need it. We're a day away from an election where we are and the people who are going to win will make it their business to save money. The poor will suffer. More. There's this great Lie that the USA is this prosperous, wonderful Mecca, where noone even wishes to die because heaven couldn't be better than all this. Our inner cities, some of them, resemble miniature 3rd world countries at war, in poverty, disease , violence and hopelessness. We have elderly citizens eating cat food on crackers because they have to choose between medication and nutrition, if they even have the medication. The population gets told it's either someone else's problem or the problems don't exist. They do, but it's spitting into the wind to get anyone to listen, much less believe the scope of human suffering here. No, not the same as else where but it's pretty dam bad across the board and getting worse. It's money-like giving is some kind of disease in itself to segments of the conservatives. I'll get it in the neck for that but my neck is already shredded so oh well.
This isn't at all the sort of thing which would be at all likely to make you feel better-fuel to the fire, as it were. It's just that there are people listening and understanding. Some small portion of these do have the scope and power to make a difference and not just rant and have a measly little vote, like me. I can still pray, though, and these days do an awful lot of that so that those in the sort of positions to effect the kind of change you need DO IT. It's God himself, so an allowable hope.
I was kind of hoping there'd be some sort of favoratism, with the whole minister's kid thing, but so far he's not too impressed. :) Thanks LSPN, for the reminder on the humour.
