not today

I guess I am not going to be a good conservative.

I don’t believe that poor people are lazy, and I don’t believe that immigrants, legal or otherwise, are trying to disrupt our precious lives.

But I do believe in taking care of the poor, which was something that Jesus talked about again and again.

Even our so called socialist president is proposing reducing the home heating assistance for the poor. Let em go to the library, I guess (oops, we closed that one too).

These are tough times. My state is working to balance it’s budget which is badly out of whack. There will be cuts to higher eduction, to lower education and to all eduction, but there will be money for prisons (but none to keep people out of prisons).

So, why is it that whenever there is a financial burden, we take it out on those who already are trying so hard just to stay above water? We will reduce help to the disabled, to those in nursing homes, to anyone who does not use a boom box to complain.

Someday in my wildest dreams, one of our conservative brethren will stand up and say something like: Times are tough and rather than making it tougher on those who are already just getting by, I am willing to kick in a few extra pennies to help them.

That will be the day.