“When you go for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.” Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts By Jack Handey
March 15, 2023, And Every Wednesday
By Linda Case Gibbons, Esq.
(Check out Lest We Forget and FYI.)
Were you laid off? Unable to afford a “bacon and egg” breakfast if it included eggs? And bacon. Was there a run on your bank?
You think those are problems? Well, buddy, you’ve got another think coming.
A city-appointed San Francisco Reparations Committee has been tussling over what the AP calls a “thorny problem:” How to atone for centuries of slavery and systematic racism.
Now that’s a real problem.
The Committee finally worked up a plan, and presented it to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors yesterday.
“Pay $5 million dollars to every eligible black adult; Eliminate personal debt and tax burdens; Provide a guaranteed income of at least $97,000 for 250 years; and, Give houses in San Francisco for $1 a family.”
Some members of the Board admitted that the city can’t afford reparations now since it's broke.
The Committee admitted that it hasn’t done an analysis of the cost of the proposal.
And some made the point that San Francisco never enslaved black people.
Despite that, members of the Board loved the idea, staunchly declaring, “Money should not stop the city from doing the right thing.”
It’s the kind of thinking that has made San Francisco the city it is today.
It’s the kind of thinking that has gotten us to where we are now, and which encouraged a new illness to surface, Climate Anxiety.
Climate Anxiety manifests as feelings of hopelessness, nervousness, and fear of the future. Because of what the climate will do to the planet.
What would make this happen, we don’t know. Or maybe we do.
Could it be Greta Thunberg saying things like, “People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.”
And not giving a slideshow presentation with facts to back her up.
Possibly.
Activist Greta has made herself a pretty penny, about $1 million dollars by scaring the bejeezus out of kids, which makes you wonder about the whole climate deal.
And reparations. And bank bailouts for some and not for others.
A whole bunch of things.
For instance, isn’t it perplexing that those who are horrified at slavery in America, and want a hefty payoff, don’t care much about slavery around the world.
Today.
Like in China.
And isn’t it concerning that activists like Al Gore, John Kerry and Greta are disgusted at the effects of climate change on the U.S., bashing the hell out of this country, but never go to picket outside of President Xi’s house?
What should concern us now is books.
They/them can ban and rewrite Gone With the Wind, and destroy Dr. Seuss’ books.
They/them can push pornographic books to kindergartners, but they better keep their/them’s paws off Chicken Little.
Chicken Little is the book that could be a mentoring guide for our sad and frightened 16-to25-year-olds. The ones who are sidelined by this new Climate disease.
Chicken Little is described as “a silly little chicken who often made silly little mistakes”, who worked herself into a tizzy when an acorn fell on her head.
“The sky is falling,” the Chick said, or was that Greta? And the rest is history.
Our history.
As Joe’s mom might say, “Joey. It’s almost sinful.”
Hold the line, America.
Be a watchdog for your country.
Stay strong, Patriots