re: #6 jaunte

The homeless man who works in the Senate

The comments over there show how little understanding there is among so many. It’s DC people, it’s working among those who are able to leave just tips every week totally what this man makes (not that they do, but since the place of full of millionaires, they could). And he’s condemned for his own effort to make his kids and grandkids lives a little better, also. Obviously, those commenters have no idea of how far $360/wk take home goes in a city like DC; rent alone would take his whole paycheck if he could find something. They have no idea of what it means not to be forgiven for their own past transgressions and trying to hang in there regardless of their own present circumstances and health. They would want that for themselves but aren’t willing to give it to others.

Because those commenters have passed the point of of their own privileged circumstances and have become judge and jury of those with much less. Sometimes I think we’re past the point of everything being just political decisions and into the age of narcissistic know-it-alls and frightened, insecurer babblers who could care less about anyone else but themselves. I know that’s the case with the RW.