Not a Day for Celebrations

Forgive me if I have a hard time celebrating today. I spent the last two and a half decades supporting the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina. I can hardly celebrate the signing of the terrible awful bill that cuts support to feed hungry children.

We have all been witness to the failure of the the farce of trickle down economics. Making the uber rich even richer does not help the multitudes get jobs. One rich person can only buy or employee so many people. That one rich person getting richer does not mean they will quadruple their spending. So excuse me if I am skeptical that this bill will grow the economy in a way to cover the $2.4 trillion dollars the non-partisan Congressional Budget O ffice says will be added to the deficit In the next nine years.

We are saddling our children with a crushing debt, while we are cutting food to hungry children. Hungry children can not thrive. They fail in school, they have trouble becoming productive adults all for the want of the most basic human need. Food.

Children born into poverty were just unlucky. Why should we compound that by not helping them. When nuts say things like, “people need to pull themselves up by their boot straps,” they are assuming people have boots. Children without food have no bootstraps, let alone boots or apples or milk. The cruelty of this awful bill will have repercussions for a generation or more.

But you say, my children are fed. I work hard and take care of my own. But your children are going to grow up and need people to work with them, and be their doctors and nurses and teachers and run the grocery store and grow their food. Who will do all this?

I am so disappointed in those so called Christians who supported this bill. You should be ashamed because if you were true followers of Christ you would know that Jesus said to feed the hungry and care for the widows and orphans.

So on this anniversary of our country I weep. What have we become?