BllFs6 wrote:
A pet peeve of mine....retirees bitchn about a "fixed income"....

Davoud chimed in:
Consider the possibility that the retiree got where she is by working
her ass off on one (or two or three, just to make ends meet) jobs for
40-plus years and raising kids, to boot.

Bill Meyers kindly replied:
It is good to hear compassion rather than the usual embittered moralism
on s.a.a. This blaming the victim stuff is getting boring. Lots of
assumptions that those living on a fixed income have done something wrong.

Now Davoud mouths off again:

Yeah, I'm a compassionate leftist*. I happen to believe that lack of
compassion -- blame the poor for being poor, and hate them for it, hate
the gays, hate the Jews, hate PBS, hate everything but hypocrisy --
imposes enormous costs on our society; costs that aren't as easily
measured as the trillions now being squandered on spreading the hatred
and further marginalizing the poor.

Hmmmm! Did the above sound like embittered moralism!? I hope not,
because I harbor no bitterness, nor any smug moralism.

Davoud

* Probably too far left to be called a "liberal," but still saddened by
the fact that "liberal," a word whose modern American meaning is "one
who believes in equal justice for all" has been turned into a
pejorative term by the merchants of hatred.

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