The pleas have already started, asking people to donate food to area food banks. And I don’t plan on donating groceries, time or money. Because the people receiving this largess don’t deserve it.
Years back, my son was in the Boy Scouts. One year the troop decided to do a “food drive for the needy.”
A local store donated grocery bags, and the boys in the troop went around town, leaving the bags on people’s doorknobs, along with a note explaining the purpose.
The following Saturday I, along with other parents, drove the kids around town to pick up the donations, which we then took to a local church basement to be sorted.
As I walked in, I noticed a crowd of roughly 75 people sitting on folding chairs placed against the church wall.
We proceeded to bring in the bags while the ladies of the church started to make up food baskets. Once this was done, we started to break open and sort out various cases of canned goods that a local supermarket had donated.
All the while, not one single person among the individuals who were receiving this handout offered to help.
Instead, they were talking among themselves as to which charity was giving away what during the holiday season.
I could have understood the lack of an offer of assistance if this were elderly or disabled people, but some of the men in the crowd looked as though they could bench-press a Buick!
And the final straw was when some of them started to complain about receiving store brand canned goods, as opposed to a name brand.
Now, before all of you start to tell me what a heartless bastard I am, let me explain to you what I AM doing.
Having lost my job back in June, my wife and I are struggling ourselves.
But there is a family in my neighborhood, which for reasons I won’t go into here, suddenly finds themselves much worse off than we are. And they would sooner eat hot dogs for Thanksgiving than to go looking for a handout.
So I plan on buying everything they need for a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, leaving it in a box on their front porch the night before, then calling the house to tell them to look on the porch, without letting them know who I am.
Why am I doing this?
Because these people are still working at making a life for their little girls, they don’t figure that the rest of the world has to take care of them.
That’s the main reason why when millions of us hear the term “spread the wealth”, our blood pressure goes up.
Because contrary to what the bleeding hearts think, we conservatives are usually first in line when it comes to helping someone.
As long as they are trying to help themselves.
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