Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Why did you yell at that man?

Kadizzle's granddaughter Sylvie is visiting.  When we get together we have to make a bumble bar.  A bumble bar is a swing you can do tricks from.  It conssist of some rope or what ever you have and something you can scrounge up.  Out in the backyard the process was underway to put the bumble bar in place. Kadizzle was on the ladder trying to get the rope over the tree.

Sylvie out of the clear blue asked Grandpa " Why did you yell at that man?".  Puzzled Kadizzle finally figured it out.  Sylvie was asking why Grandpa yelled at the congressman.  Now how do you explain such a thing to an eight year old?  Grandpa explained that a woman had a baby.  The baby was born with many serious problems.  Crying the woman asked the congressman what he would do to make sure her baby was taken care of during the life of her baby.  This congressman did not care about the woman.  He did not care about the baby.  What the congressman cared about was pleasing the people who get him elected.  The poor woman was so distraught that she could hardly stop crying long enough to speak. The congressman gave the crying young mother a silly Republican answer.  Kadizzle knew what this congressman really wanted to do. The congressman wanted to destroy healthcare for poor people.  Destroying healthcare and taking away protection for the poor woman's baby wouuld mean rich people could have an 800 billion dollar tax break.  Kadizzle explained to Sylvie that it angered him so much that the congressman would lie about his motives.  The congressman said it was not a tax break he was giving to the rich. The congressman said the rich had the money before they were forced to help the poor, so it was simply putting the rich back to where they were before they helped the poor.  Such an absurd argument angered Kadizzle and that is why he yelled at the congressman.

Sylvie said " So it was like Robinhood?".   Well it was just the opposite of Robinhood Kadizzle explained to Sylvie.  The congressman is trying to rob the poor to give money to the rich.




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