Is meanness now the predominant characteristic of the party that calls itself Republican? Or the headline might read: The wealthiest country in the world wants to cut food assistance to their own poorest children.
What have we become as a culture? We flaunt and faun all over the well-to-do, no matter their lack of social conscience or commitment to relationships, intimate and otherwise. We select and elect people to oversee organizations and departments they could not be more poorly suited to manage. It’s a bit like asking the fox to look out for the hens.
Why are we punishing the least among us for our own faults and wealth accumulation and further compounding the likelihood of success in growing toward adulthood? Is it my imagination or does it seem that Republican lawmakers do not seem to like children and poor families? They put further hurdles in the way to success rather than a “leg up” to assist. Do Republican lawmakers really believe that this is only hurting Democratic families? “Combined, Medicaid and CHIP protect nearly half of all children in the United States, beginning with important prenatal care, covering over 40% of U.S. births as well as nearly half of all rural births, and continuing to insure millions of vulnerable children into young adulthood.” Where is our humanity?
Investing in children and families is not only good for the family, it is good for the town, state and the country as a whole. It is an investment to our future as a nation. As it turns out we are not all created equal and, by golly, we are going to make sure that we make the rich richer and the poor poorer because somehow this “Makes America Great Again.”
Patricia Sadoski, Logan
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