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[rainsavannah]

Dear Maggie,

I have HORATIO HORNBLOWER and OPERA CAKE.

Where are you?

Love,
Darcy

P.S. It's okay, I think the it's the episode without Archie anyway. Who'd have thought that all the others would be checked out? It makes no sense. Plus, I forgot that you have to pay for library movies too and made an idiot of myself.

Comments

[cu_roi]

FIrst of all, I have family members who live beneath the poverty line, and they're not "poor," just poor by American standards. And I can assure you that they would not have been in that city when the hurricane hit. Unless youre an invalid, and I seriously doubt that the...100000? who remained were all invalids-unless you're an invalid, you should not have been in that city when the storm hit. If you didn't have car, you should have paid someone to take you out of the city. If you had zero dollars, and nothing to sell, you should have packed a bag, stolen a bicicle, and left the city that way.
Granted, we do still have to provide money for these people. Stupid as they may be, they're still people. But why does it have to be my money? How bout the mayor's money? How bout whatever stupid ass bureaucracy that was supposed to make sure this didn't happen go and hand feed the survivers with whatever fattening danties they have stuffed beneath their car seat.
Why am I so pissed off? Why am I so unwilling to donate my coffee money?
Here's why: "Oh sorry, we just let tens of thousands of people drown in the middle of New Orleans. But send us some more money so we can fuck-up the relief too."

[rainsavannah]

The mayor's money -- or rather, the government's money -- is your money. And they'll use as much tax dollars as they need.

I'd rather give my money to an organization I trust to get stuff done.