It’s 25¢!
“Our” columnist Barbara Kay—one of my favorite columnists in all the land and one of the most popular at PTBC—wrote a little commentary snippet in the National Post today (a publication which I’ve already beaten with my nasty-stick twice this morning in my NewsQuips for their abject stupidity, and so this Barbara Kay piece is a welcome respite).
On the basis of this little commentary this morning, I would like to nominate her for the position of… next Prime Minister. Prime Minister Barbara Kay. There will be many detractors. They are liberals. Political-correctness mavens; and useful idiots who have quite willingly become lost in the fog of the liberal-leftist Fabian socialist war.
Here it is. Words directly from a female conservative meaniepants. Liberals, get your righteous indignation hats ready. Get your hysteria gear on—or matches ready to set your hair on fire—or whatever it is you liberals do whenever you deem that something is officially beneath contempt.
Once we’re on the subject of food banks, and the manipulative tug at your heartstrings the word “food” evokes, allow me to vent about my pet peeve in this domain: phone solicitations for a charity called Feed the Children.
What this charity does is to give breakfast to children of the poor who come to school so hungry they cannot focus on their studies. I have been called several times by these people and each time I have asked to speak to a supervisor so I can tell her or him why I would never support such a scheme, but they keep calling anyway. Here is what I tell them:
1) the price of a heaping bowl of oatmeal with sugar and milk is probably about 19 cents, and you can add a few cents for the cost of boiling the water, because I am not talking about the expensive instant oatmeal, which tastes awful compared to the real thing anyway, so let’s say about 25 cents a kid for a healthy and filling breakfast;
2) If there is anyone in this country who cannot afford that much money to give their kid breakfast, it means they are spending their welfare money on something they shouldn’t, or they are such totally negligent parents they deserve to have the kids taken into care;
3) By feeding people’s children and asking other Canadians to donate money to do so, you are basically saying that parents have no responsibility to feed their own children, and that when they don’t feed them, they can expect others to do so for them, without even receiving any disapproval. Instead they are receiving validation and
sympathy. Naturally this will raise their self-esteem, and give them no incentive to take back any responsibility so the charity is self-perpetuating and just a matter of time before they are giving the kids dinner too;4) So in fact this charity is not only unnecessary – threaten those parents with jail time for negligence and you will soon see the kids getting their breakfast at home – it is an enabler for dysfunctional or irresponsible and utterly selfish people who have no shame. For what could be more shameful than expecting other people to provide
such basic necessities as food for their children?The really sad thing is that the people working for this project think they are good samaritans and that I am a cold-hearted grinch.
I think the problem liberals will have with this is manifestly that it is such good common sense. And such blatant honesty. Liberals don’t hate it when you lie about them—they hate it when you tell the truth (i.e., it’s 25¢!).
I swear I’ve never come closer to turning PTBC’s comments section back on so I could read the liberals’ “outrage” comments from this little snippet of a commentary.
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