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Yet Another Pledge
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Enough money
For food
That’s what she says
And the spokesperson
Iterates
Enough money indeed
Food insecurity
We call it
Issue-words for hunger
I suppose
And do we understand
Who needs to understand
How it is
To miss the money
That our planet should provide
Since birth
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For us
Perhaps
A tissue argument
So thin
To be unreal
Like the gossamer wings
On made-up creatures
Though this hunger
Is for real
And threatens to take lives
And takes them
And this forestalls that
Worked somehow
To succeed
For under twenty dollars
Each
And there’s a t-shirt
That
No one can eat
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Photo by Jeison Higuita on Unsplash
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clcouch123 
August 22, 2023 at 4:25 pm
The planet provides opportunities for we enterprising humans to make food for ourselves and trade it to others for other goods and services, all opportunities given to all by God. There ARE some people we must care for who can’t care for themselves, some people who need better schools and mentorship. Temporary support for unwed mothers, etc. Nobody is “entitled” to anything by an accident of birth. “Ask not what your country can do for you…” As to “sins of our fathers,” While the Bible does say in Deuteronomy 24:16 that “Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers,” there are generational consequences of our sin that affect those close to us. Although we are not responsible for the sins of our fathers (parents) or children we must ensure we are not influenced by them to sin likewise and learn from their mistakes. Anyway, this is what I think. The alternative leads to nightmare scenarios, telling people they deserve anything and can just take it or demand it’s given to them. We owe it to try to make as equal playing field as possible. But the alternative is to return to the Middle Ages. And one more thought. When people are forced to support others instead of letting them do it (and people ARE generous spirited ), you remove the tie they have to their generosity so they stop. There are dozens of ways we used to help people that are gone now. I’m not directing this at you–I know you love to raise questions. We don’t need some nanny parenting society taking a ball from one child, giving it to another, and then lecturing the first child about “sharing.” Did anyone learn anything? Does the child from whom the ball was taken feel good about “sharing” since it wasn’t HIM who reached out and gave? This is freaking mess and being made worse by do-gooders who should do good personally and leave others alone to their own humanity–we used to have some…liberal politicians (and some establishment conservatives) are purposely dividing us for power, all while they sell us out.