Maxine is rehashing that ol email bit? I read that one about...nine or ten years back. It pops up from time to time, bizarre as ever.
I bought a bird feeder. I hung It on my back porch and filled It with seed.
First error, in premise. Public assistance isn't some disengaged altruist handing things to lesser beings. A great many people who at some point in their lives require and use it have been and go on to be productive, wage earning and tax paying citizens. Those who aren't are largely comprised of those with significant disabilities, the elderly and children. That's the actual rule.
So from this shallow, misshapen acorn a twisted tree with a bitter bark tries to take root, watered by the tears of frustrated outrage on the part of people who are either insufficiently informed, willfully ignorant, or bias blinded. But let's continue...
What a beauty of a bird feeder it was, as I filled it, lovingly with seed. Within a week we had hundreds of birds taking advantage of the continuous flow of free and easily accessible food.
Or, people in need utilizing the mechanism put in place for that need. Exactly as intended. The free is mistaken (see: the working poor pay taxes too) and the loving? We're about to see the falsity of that sentiment by the
maker, someone who no one reading this would ever believe put up a feeder to begin with. No, they paid funds into their neighborhood co-op and the board thought it would be a good idea. They've been grousing ever since, doing their best to cut back on the feed allocated. Suggesting the feed could be scattered on the ground as easily and at lower cost.
But then the birds started building nests in the boards of the patio, above the table, and next to the barbecue. Then came the poop. It was everywhere: on the patio tile, the chairs, the table…. Everywhere!
Responsible management leads to manageable use, by and large. The grotesque exception is paraded here as the rule, along with the subtext of reducing people in need to greedy animals with the real human being the well-intentioned provider. Let the subtextual racism continue:
Then some of the birds turned mean. They would dive bomb me and try to peck me even though I had fed them out of my own pocket. After a while, I couldn’t even sit on my own back porch anymore.
Third flaw. The porch would be owned by everyone, all of us are birds. There's no "taking back" a thing overrun.
Soon, the back yard was like it used to be ….. Quiet, serene…. And no one demanding their rights to a free meal.
The arrogant, assumptive conflation of the worst expectation with the rule...there's so much wrong with this analogy.
Now let’s see. Our government gives out free food, subsidized housing, free medical care and free education, and allows anyone born here to be an automatic citizen.
No, the government, subject to screening and real need provides, where necessary, subsistence living assistance. Free education is provided to everyone, rich and poor, and only an idiot would suggest that nominal investment in creating good citizens and a superior workforce is a form of welfare, altruism, or largess. Citizenship has always been about birth here. What's bizarre is that right after criticizing that by lump sum inference the next complaint is about immigrants.
lain:
Then the illegals came by the tens of thousands. Suddenly our taxes went up to pay for free services; small apartments are housing 5 families; you have to wait 6 hours to be seen by an emergency room doctor; your child’s second grade class is behind other schools because over half the class doesn’t speak English.
Immigrants have been coming in droves for generations, in every decade where the nation was a symbol of prosperity and freedom. The classroom bit is hysterical nonsense or an anecdote that doesn't begin to approach the mean.
The percentage of public school students in the United States who were English language learners was higher in school year 2013–14 (9.3 percent, or an estimated 4.5 million students) than in 2003–04 (8.8 percent, or an estimated 4.2 million students) and 2012–13 (9.2 percent, or an estimated 4.4 million students).In 2013–14, five of the six states with the highest percentages of ELL students in their public schools were in the West. In the District of Columbia and six states—Alaska, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas—10.0 percent or more of public school students were English language learners, with California having the highest percentage, at 22.7 percent. Seventeen states had percentages of ELL public school enrollment between 6.0 and 9.9 percent. These states were Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, Virginia, and Washington. In 13 states, the percentage of ELL students in public schools was between 3.0 and 5.9 percent; this percentage was less than 3.0 percent in 14 states, with West Virginia having the lowest percentage, at 0.7 percent. National Center for Education Statistics
Corn flakes now come in a bilingual box
The horror. Unless one of those isn't English the complaint isn't much of one.
; I have to ‘press one ‘ to hear my bank talk to me in English
Supra.
, and people waving flags other than ‘Old Glory’ are squawking and screaming in the streets, demanding more rights and free liberties.
What additional rights? Which people? What liberties and how are any liberties less than free?
Just my opinion, but maybe it’s time for the government to take down the bird feeder.
Just her heartless, headless, opinion, pulled fresh from half-baked, vaguely racist noodling that can only be called reason as an act of charity.
Coming soon to a restroom near you.
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