*takes a breather*
One of my residents - the man who owned the irish wolfhound - died. :/
We're also running a food drive so when I passed one house with a bag under the mailbox, I asked the woman outside if I need to pick that up. She explained that she no longer participated in such things because she couldn't understand why anyone in this country would lack food. I subversively agreed that as wealthy as the US is we shouldn't have that problem. She crossly quoted that biblical line about teach a man to fish, etc and went on to defend that between welfare and food-stamps there shouldn't be a problem. I guess she's never actually tried to qualify for such things and discovered how stingy and limited such welfare is.
I remembered the last time we went to Greenridge so I could practice fly-fishing. The local pond had been stocked by 900 trout three days earlier. While we were there, few people caught anything, because the pond was nearly empty. While we fished, a person was getting fined for going three times over the catch limit. The seemed to think getting punished was unfair.
I also briefly ruminated on how the republican party so strongly recruits from conservative christians and how most of those individuals seem to have missed the part of their dogma that emphasizes giving as a social virtue. (So do many other religions).
I snapped back that many people can't find a pond with any fish left in it because other people before them were greedy. Then I walked away before she could offer any more pithy justifications, which I hadn't demanded to hear, regardless.
We're also running a food drive so when I passed one house with a bag under the mailbox, I asked the woman outside if I need to pick that up. She explained that she no longer participated in such things because she couldn't understand why anyone in this country would lack food. I subversively agreed that as wealthy as the US is we shouldn't have that problem. She crossly quoted that biblical line about teach a man to fish, etc and went on to defend that between welfare and food-stamps there shouldn't be a problem. I guess she's never actually tried to qualify for such things and discovered how stingy and limited such welfare is.
I remembered the last time we went to Greenridge so I could practice fly-fishing. The local pond had been stocked by 900 trout three days earlier. While we were there, few people caught anything, because the pond was nearly empty. While we fished, a person was getting fined for going three times over the catch limit. The seemed to think getting punished was unfair.
I also briefly ruminated on how the republican party so strongly recruits from conservative christians and how most of those individuals seem to have missed the part of their dogma that emphasizes giving as a social virtue. (So do many other religions).
I snapped back that many people can't find a pond with any fish left in it because other people before them were greedy. Then I walked away before she could offer any more pithy justifications, which I hadn't demanded to hear, regardless.