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Juan Williams, writing in The Hill, opens with this:
Imagine Baby Jesus as an American child this Christmas.
Odds are he’d be a poor person. Poverty is now epidemic among America’s children, and getting worse. Yet none of the presidential candidates, and neither the Republican majority in the House nor the Democrats in the Senate and White House is engaging the issue in any meaningful way.
Juan's evidently been at the eggnog again.
As I understand it, Baby Jesus was born in a barn.
And there's a vast difference between "poverty in America" and the real deal - which is why MO and BO have no compunction about dropping $4 million on yet another vacation. In America, for the most part, being poor means that you only have one color tv, and you may have to forego that smartphone upgrade. It means that taxpayers buy your Ho-Hos, your chips, your soda pop, and your Whopper meals. It means that you don't swipe your SNAP card to buy a whole chicken or a roast, take it home and cook it, and use the left-overs in soups and stews and sandwiches.
No, that sort of stuff is to be left to the people whose tax dollars support your lifestyle. We can do things like take four cups of flour, a tablespoon and a half of sugar, a little salt, and a little water and yeast - and we can turn that into a loaf of french bread. But most "poor" people in America aren't gonna do that, 'cause it ain't worth their time.
Making good food and providing for the kids ain't on their list. Send the kids off to school; they get fed for free there.
