Watching the news gives me the distinct impression that some
people matter and some people don't.
Senators and business people looking to get home or making money matter;
old people looking for one good meal a day don't. Trust fund babies looking for tax breaks
matter; poor kids looking forward to Head Start don’t. Banks matter; the people they screw
don’t. Gun owners matter; dead children
don’t. From one end of Pennsylvania
Avenue to the other lip service is paid, righteous objection is chronicled,
slogans are offered in lieu of progress and condolences are extended. Yet, some people matter and some people
don’t.
Through it all the God of the Christians is venerated, our
freedom extolled, our equality asserted and our way of life held up to the world
as a model of all things good and decent.
Yet, some people matter and some people don’t. Who the hell do our leaders think they are to
proceed as if we don’t notice? Who the
hell do the members of the Fourth Estate think they are to profess to be the
great harvester of truth, separating wheat from shaft and leaving the wheat on
the floor? Who the hell are we to
tolerate it all?
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