The Rude Pundit: Photos That Make the Rude Pundit Want to Huff Nitrous Oxide

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46. I know what you mean. So gratified that there are people with hearts big enough, and

consciences well-developed enough, to offer this service, but very discouraged to think that there even has to be such a grave need for it. In America, we're talking. In America this is going on, and this is the level of need, and this is the level of neglect, and this is the level of class warfare and shortage of empathy and compassion. Too many of us in and out of power obsessed with coddling and comforting the already plenty well-coddled and well-comforted.

I always was taught - "much blessed, much obligated." If you had more, you were expected to do more. You were supposed to help more. In the same manner as - if you were stronger or had broader shoulders, you were expected to lift more. If you're more fortunate and you're able to help and make a difference, then dammit, you're OBLIGATED. You're just frickin' OBLIGATED. Obligated to your community, your country, and your fellow man. Your brothers and sisters. If there's a need, and you're able to meet it, or some of it, then because you are more blessed, you need to just shut up and step up. And CONTRIBUTE, goddammit! That's your obligation for all those blessings. You're just frickin' OBLIGATED. That's the invoice God sends you when you're blessed that richly. Those gifts and blessings are also invoices. They're yours, but you use them to do for others, or help others, or enrich or nourish others.

The teabaggers and other assorted CONS always remind me of very young and poorly-disciplined brat-children. Spoiled into a healthy and well-nurtured sense of class-engendered entitlement. THESE types are more "ENTITLED" than ANYONE in wrongney's 47%! They were never taught to see or consider the value and/or equal worth of anything outside themselves and their own interests. Never taught to share and therefore see no reason why they should have to. Encouraged to be selfish and short-sighted and smug and self-absorbed, because, of course, they're simply THE BEST and most worthy, by the birthright that's conferred mainly by the proper shade of skin as well as size of family treasury. And now throwing tantrums because they're no longer getting their way.