For whatever reason, blogger isn't allowing me to copy-paste my entry from my blog to this one. Maybe it's because I'm running Safari on a roommate's computer. Who knows. Point is, Cindy and I watched Michael Moore's "SiCKO" last night (it was my second time through it) and I'm, again, pretty righteously pissed at our government and how our health care system is set up. And I'm also pretty pissed at how our country is run like a business whereby the profitable and useful citizens are the only ones that the government seems to care about. The poor starve and die and are treated terribly while the rich enjoy multiple houses, wives and incomes. We treat our citizens as cogs in a machine, and if they don't add to the American way of life (or simply can't pay an exorbitant hospital bill), we cast them aside and turn our eyes away when they are reduced to begging on the streets.
I suggest that the success of a society is measured in how it cares for the poor and the underprivileged. I'd certainly suggest that our Maker thinks so.
[Read the post on my blog if you'd like]
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That reminded me of a "quote" that really can be traced to several people:
Winston Churchill
Pearl S. Buck
Fydor Dostoevsky
I like the version attributed to Buck.
"the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members"
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