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[LuckyTheDog]

I got a report today about some seniors we at my workplace recently helped out by paying for "care packages" during the holidays. I was appalled by how badly they needed our help.

This is what the right-wing, anti-welfare-state idiots don't get: Some people really ARE needy. And, in my view, those people should not have to rely on charity to get by. The poor elderly and others who can't care for themselves have a right to life and some semblance of personal dignity. And our society has an obligation to provide it. Yet, we don't. We use our resentment of fictional "welfare queens" and a misguided ethic of extreme personal responsibility as an excuse to turn our backs on out duty as human beings. It makes me sick.

The sick, the old, the very young are the responsibility of all of us. Period.

End of rant. Please resume your regularly scheduled day.