re: #11 HappyWarrior

Props to your Mom. My Nana was a beneficiary. The program does so much to help our seniors and it’s such a small percentage of our overall budget. When we talked about it at dinner, my mom was making the argument that it could be even better than it already is.

I’ve written about it here before, but one of the ironies of our lives has been how some of the young (now 50-somethings) rich kids I went to church with became the local versions of the Christian GOP we know today and wrecked the church my parents were instrumental in maintaining. Granted, it was a centrist upper-middle class Presbyterian church, but my mom especially (and after retirement, my dad) used it to do work for the underserved in our town. My dad is a bit like Jimmy Carter. He is an engineer and still works to repair and build homes; he’s 90. Anyway, the rich members of the church were pissed off over things like gay marriage and left to build their own church (with gym and school facilities) on the outskirts of town. That’s how it happens. All over America these people want to stop paying taxes for what they don’t like and to divert the taxes they pay to their private religious/educational projects.