The flea treatment was just a cheap journalistic trick.
I just remembered a story that a person from our church who became a missionary in Honduras told. A woman brought a very ill child to a place where a temporary medical mission was set up, but the doctor quickly determined that the child was much too ill for him to treat. The woman was very poor and had 5 other small children, so the mission team all kicked in a few dollars to allow the woman to go to the hospital to get treatment for the child.
A couple of weeks later the missionary visited the family in their home and saw the child had not been treated and asked what the woman had done with the money. She said that she had five more children and they were all hungry. She had had to sacrifice the medical treatment of the one to feed the rest.
Just after the 2004 re-election of Bush, some liberal wrote that he had NOTHING to be thankful for on that Thanksgiving. I wrote him a letter and told him the story of the woman who had to choose between a dying child and 5 starving children. I told him if he had nothing to be thankful for, be thankful that he didn’t have to make a Sophie’s Choice.
That was no cheap journalistic trick. Just a few facts to set you straight:
Parents brought little doggie to vet for flea treatments costing about $87.00; they could have simply banished the dog outside or done a “do-it-yourself” flea treatment for a few bucks - yes; they exist.
A doctor’s visit for a routine check to see why the kid has a lump in his neck and doesn’t feel good runs about $75.00. This was the excuse the parents kept giving for not even bringing the kid to the doc for even the FIRST visit. I guarantee you these losers never looked past even the first visit.
The PROSECUTOR in this case is the one who presented the grand jury with the paid bill for the flea treatments, causing not a few jurors to cry, so the paper just printed that.
So much for CHEAP tricks. Time to open your eyes. Sometimes newspapers do a good job at pointing out things we need to know which is why I’m not thrilled so many are going down the tubes. In spite of their liberal bent, they do often do good investigative work - at least the Plain Dealer has and I say “kudos” to them for that. Of course, I still hate Connie Schultz.