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Posted on 11/07/2012 10:53:38 PM PST by TheWriterTX
Some women are truly born to be mothers. Their compassion knows no limits, their charity is unceasing, their thoughtfulness without hesitation. I am sincerely blessed to be able to call such a woman, “Mom.”
I learned a lot, watching her. I learned compassion by watching her tend to others at the Cerebral Palsy Center, by watching her give a loving home to many a wounded or abandoned animal, by watching her patiently listen to my young friends as they shared their problems and her giving them excellent advice. I learned responsibility because both my parents were responsible: to each other, to us, with their things, with their home, with their money. I learned charity by seeing how they donated to those less fortunate, gave to the truly needy, volunteered to help local groups, clubs, and the church.
When my children started school, I was approached to help the PTA. Remembering my mother’s example, I happily served for many years, on multiple committees and finally the Board. I remained on the Board even after I chose to homeschool my children, because I wanted the school to be as strong as possible for the families who did not have the ability to homeschool.
But according to you, I’m a racist.
When landmen came into my area to pressure residents into signing inferior leases during the 2007-2008 frenzy, several neighbors and I started a coalition to collectively negotiate our mineral rights. Individually, we voluntarily donated several hundred hours of our lives, bringing on neighborhood after neighborhood, so that we could negotiate the most restrictive lease possible. We hoped that those restrictions would serve as a protective umbrella for our neighbors who gave into the pressure and signed the inferior leases. Our muti-million dollar landmark deal made the front page of the paper, put a few thousand dollars into the pockets of each family that signed, and resulted in a lease that was over 18 pages long. My compensation for over 300 hours of work? The same amount that any family with our sized plot would receive, $4,000.
But according to you, I’m rich and greedy.
When a local community-based group had problems with the IRS, I offered to help. Recreating 5 years worth of financials to bring their forms up to date, I spent the next year haggling with the IRS. They didn’t owe any taxes, but they were faced with thousands of dollars in fees because prior volunteers didn’t realize they had to file certain forms. Thankfully, the IRS eventually waived the fees, and those thousands were used to for their intended purpose, to buy needed supplies for a local school.
But I’m a bigot.
My family gave and gave and gave, even when we were struggling ourselves. We donated our time to the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, youth sports, the school, the church, our community, our city. Despite being wiped out by medical bills, battling a chronic illness and constant debt, working full time and raising 3 children, we donated what little we had to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, to breast cancer research, to animal rescue groups, to the Women’s Shelter, to school fundraisers. We participated in whatever way we could, to the best of our abilities, encouraging our children to do so, as well.
Because we wanted to help. We wanted to help make things better.
Meanwhile, you sat back. You wouldn’t even spend a few dollars to join or a few hours to help, but you were more than happy to bring your kids and your family members to events to enjoy other people’s hard work, or complain when things weren’t just perfect for you and your schedule.
And over the last year I have seen you mock my God, spit on my values, call me every name under the sun, and presume you have a right to more. You’ve chosen a President who promised to reach further into my pocket and scrape out what little I have left to satisfy your need for “entitlements” while at the same time ridiculing me for clinging to my Constitutionally-enumerated rights.
Fair enough.
I’m shrugging. I’m shrugging hard.
I won’t help your kids, donate to your cause, clean up your messes, participate in your fundraisers. I won’t sell your stuff, give to strangers, arrange events, secure sponsors, man a table, do research, or take one more precious hour away from my family to help you. You’ll get the least amount from me as possible.
Because according to you, I’m a greedy, racist, bigoted, ignorant TEA bagger; obviously, you wouldn’t want help from someone like me or any children raised by me. My children have learned a lot by watching you, and it’s ugly, indeed.
Get ready to work.
I'm officially going Galt.
Thank you dr!.
I love this! We were already contemplating a sign on our front gate warning off solicitors with a similar, although much shorter, message. :0) We are circling the wagons and taking care of ourselves for awhile. We will be extremely picky about gifts of our time, talent and treasure.
But I'm all for shunning help to anyone that voted to enslave us with Marxism.
Most excellent article. Thank you!
I own a place like yours and told a visitor last Sunday to leave it and not come back in the future due to his liberal agenda and support for Obama.
My wife has relatives up and down Illinois, (the closest to
Chicago is 120 miles away).
They are conservative like us.
Being conservatives and living in leftwing hellhole states like Illinois and CalifornicatrU land has become similiar to living in hell.
“Now that will be exclusive to conservatives. In the past I would invite any acquaintance. No longer. If I know someone was an Obama supporter, they will never again set foot in my ‘ranch’. They are done. They wanted to vote for someone with is utterly corrupt, incompetent, and denigrating of my values. Screw em. I will not lift a finger on behalf of another O supporter. They want to kill my country. They can do it on their own.”
The liberals would sue you at the drop of a hat if they broke a fingernail on your property.
I fish on some private lands. The owners basically only allow conservatives to do that. They still require us to either email them or to phone them that we want to fish and the dates. Then they get back to me and say it is okay.
I agree. I did this four years ago and somewhat softened toward the end. That’s just it —they count on our anger dissipating. Then you’ll eventually go back to pulling the cart. The GOPe will throw another lackluster candidate up there, they’ll throw us a bone with a decent VP pick and it’ll be Lucy with the football all over again as the Communists more brazenly steal every election.
OK folks, you can still donate to animal shelters and rescues. The poor dogs and cats aren’t liberals!
You said it, “they count on the anger dissipating” DO NOT LET IT GO! Let it fester and boil and become even deeper and more resentful... I am not being sarcastic.
Take what you will from this: Growing up I was big for my age. I went to a small school. 8th grade and up played high school football. My friend was a year older than me. We played ball together until he went to 8th grade. I had always been able to clean his clock in the blocking pit because I was bigger. I moved to 8th grade still bigger than him but he cleaned my clock now until I learned how to get angry and mean but only for football. It paid off.
Attitude is everything in battle. You either always play to win or you lose.
Be resolute, do without things. Starve the beast. Take care of your own and prepare because starving the beast will have consequences.
Excellent point.
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See my tag line. :-)
Looks like shunning is back in vogue. Good.
lol, I got’s me one too.
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