While the powerful mint monuments to themselves, the rest of us are just trying to keep the lights on, the kids covered, and the paperwork from eating us alive.
This is a good one Shanley! Many quotable paragraphs.
"children don’t lose health insurance because they made bad choices or failed to hustle hard enough or subscribed to the wrong ideology. Children lose health insurance because adults with power build systems with trapdoors and then act surprised when small bodies fall through them.
I’ve always believed you can learn everything you need to know about a person — or society— by how they treat their children and their dogs. Both need love, patience, time, and boundaries. Both groups do just fine without a million plastic toys, 27 treats before dinner, and wardrobes that allow a different look five times a day. The decision-makers are failing our children.
This is a good one Shanley! Many quotable paragraphs.
"children don’t lose health insurance because they made bad choices or failed to hustle hard enough or subscribed to the wrong ideology. Children lose health insurance because adults with power build systems with trapdoors and then act surprised when small bodies fall through them.
I’ve always believed you can learn everything you need to know about a person — or society— by how they treat their children and their dogs. Both need love, patience, time, and boundaries. Both groups do just fine without a million plastic toys, 27 treats before dinner, and wardrobes that allow a different look five times a day. The decision-makers are failing our children.
how massively sad for all of us.
and, on a totally different topic in the same post, how wonderful for you!