The gripes of wrath

Burt Prelutsky About | Email | Archive

There is so much in America today that calls for ridicule and contempt, one hardly knows where to begin. But when in doubt, you can’t go wrong starting with liberals. Whether they’re calling themselves liberals, progressives or Democrats this week, at the top of their mission statement is the feeding and housing of the needy. But what they never do is separate the needy who are deserving from those who aren’t. To them, the needy are all the same.

They make no distinction between the elderly poor or severely handicapped and those who are young and able-bodied but feel themselves entitled to everything without having to work for any of it. Furthermore, the last thing left-wingers want to do is to turn the needy into the un-needy because to do so would eliminate the takers from their dependence on the Democrats. That is why they ignore the adage that points out if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach him to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. The truth is that if Americans were ever forced to learn how to fish, no liberal would ever again be elected president….To Read More……