Reply #85: not often [View All]

[marions ghost]

do people get a 'message' from the cosmos so soon.:o If these rich people could have the experience of not knowing where their next meal was coming from for awhile, they might be considerably less righteous and judgmental.

I had a friend who got unemployment for awhile when he was between low-level teaching stints. His wealthy sister had married a banker and never worked a job in her life. She told him she didn't "want her tax dollars" going for him to be on unemployment. He needed to "take responsibility" y'know. Finally my friend got a permanent teaching job, but in the years since he has never had anything more to do with his sister or her family, referring to her only as "The Republican."

I remember once I went home from school with a friend whose family I knew was not all that well off, but I didn't have any real sense of that. My family didn't always have money for clothes and junk but we did at least have food. Anyway we got to this friend's house and she opened the fridge door and there was exactly one jar of mayonnaise and a carton of OJ. So without apology, this friend just gets a loaf of bread, spreads some mayo on it and makes "sandwiches" for us, chatting about school. I will never forget her nonchalance about that. She seemed glad that there was anything in the fridge at all.

Rich people who begrudge the poor money to eat...Marie Antoinette's spirit is alive and well...