OK, so anyone who has been on facebook anytime in the last few years has most likely noticed the abundance of "memes" coming across their news feeds. Some of them are funny, some offensive and some (such as cute kittens doing cute kitten things) are adorable.
I don't mind the memes. I usually read them once and then hide the picture from my feed and go about my day.
But sometimes, I read one that just irritates me. So I decided that I am going to deem the sharer of those memes to have gone mad and pick on the the thought behind the meme for a bit.
Today, it was this one...
My thought after reading this was "OK, I'll dress like a republican and fill my living room full of the best and most desirable candy in all the land. When the kids come to my door, I will be swimming around in it and politely tell them "I'm sorry, you can't have any of my candy. It's mine. Go home and tell your parent's to quit being lazy and get a job, then they can buy you your own candy." Now if any of the kids offered to rake my leaves in exchange for some candy, that would be acceptable. I would make sure to keep a handful of those gross peanut butter taffy things around as payment for their labor. Only one each though...don't want to spoil them.
But all jokes aside, I feel the need to point out to some...especially those who share this...that 'half' isn't quite accurate. You would know this if you did some basic mathematics while looking at your pay stub.
I also find it extremely annoying that these people always refer to people receiving any kind of Government assistance as 'Lazy'. Many are not. They merely use the program as it's intended, to help them through a rough time after a lay-off, injury or some other life-changing occurrence. Sure, some abuse the system and I agree that it sucks having to pay for them as well. But does that really mean that we should let all the others starve or go homeless because of the estimated 3% of cases that are fraudulent?
Calling all these people 'lazy' is like calling America an 'Asian Nation' just because there are some Asians here. It's incorrect and when you say it, you look like an idiot.
Why is it that the republicans, many of whom claim to be good faithful religious folk, have such an issue with giving a small part of their income to help those less fortunate? It baffles me.
Let's say little Tommy had 10 pieces of candy, and someone asked him, as well as all the other kids who had 10 pieces of candy, to put one piece in a separate bucket for the kids who broke their legs and couldn't go trick-or-treating. Is that so evil that it deserves a condescending meme about it on facebook? Of course, not. Anyone with a heart would agree that it sounds reasonable. It's not until Bobby shows up on the scene with 100 pieces of candy and someone asks him to put 10 pieces in....then everyone throws a fit and all hell breaks loose. They ignore the fact that he will still have 81 more pieces of candy than all the other kids, they are just mad that he had to give up more pieces of candy than the other kids.
Now I could go on about his for hours, but I really need to get some housework done, so I will just say this...
If you are Bobby in the situation above, feel free to say you think it's unfair and feel free to justify why you think you need 90 (instead of just 81) more pieces of candy than all the other kids. Just don't do it in the manner of a child throwing a fit in Walmart - kicking, screaming and making threats and/or facebook memes. You already looked crazy and hypocritical by voicing your opinion that it isn't fair...don't add fuel to the fire by making yourself look like an immature brat as well.
