Posted on 10/18/2013 5:13:59 AM PDT by Ouderkirk
In the meantime, there is a shortage of blood and a major disaster strikes. How many lives could needlessly be lost because you and others won’t donate?
Just my humble opinion, but I think the anger is misdirected. Now if the Republican Party or some RINO candidate calls, looking for money, I would say no. The party and its gaggle of liberal no balls traitors can stuff it.
I happen to know the assistant director of the local food bank. She told me that this food bank is seeing more and more people who would never have come to the food bank before. People who had good careers, but the employer closed or downsized, or some catastrophic illness wiped them out financially. These aren’t the usual Obamaphone slackers. They are middle class or upper middle class, or they were before disaster struck.
Look, I can’t tell you who to contribute to, but I’d just like for you to consider that not everyone who seeks charitable assistance is a lazy, entitlement whore. As this economy gets worse and our dear leader starts raiding whatever we have in the name of redistribution of wealth, I expect to see more and more people you and I are close to looking for help. Maybe even you and me.
No anger involved - just trying to make my point. If I am being forced to pay for something that is untenable, then the government should have to pay for something that is needed. I will gladly continue to give blood, but it now has a price - just like insurance companies charge a price and the government penalizes with a tax.
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