Being Liberal in the Time of Conservatives
It’s difficult being a liberal when you grew up in a conservative area. I pay my taxes. There are days I cringe as I put my signature on a check that is actually more than my mother brought home in a year. Yet even though it hurts I feel I am doing my civic duty in writing that check. I have family members who have relied on welfare, food stamps, and disability. When I was younger my mother made $4 more a month than was allowed to receive food stamps. We were lucky she knew how to stretch a dollar and she had a mother who would loan her some cash, I do mean loan not give, only IF things got very tight. Which is why we ate a lot of spaghetti and tuna noodle casserole. I worked from the age of 13, granted initially it was babysitting, but I have worked in restaurants, a nursing home, hotels, and libraries. ...