I'm using the edit function to come back and add this box because I'm a little nervous about this column. I always post my Indian Country Today pieces here and I have to link them to observe a short embargo because I get paid over there. This one is different in that I was floating very high on post-op painkillers when I wrote it. The painkillers, however, were not enough to blunt the pain of the cuts to food stamps that penetrated the drug-induced fog. I sent it off to my editor while I was still high, and I told him I was high, and he accepted it. I don't make a habit of writing while intoxicated, but the Republicans made me do it.As I punched my car radio to NPR, I only caught the end of a woman’s earnest plea: “if we only save one of these kids, that child might be the one to climb to the top ranks of corporate America.”
I winced.
I’m all for helping disadvantaged kids. I learned in the discussion later she was helping out some kids in a homeless shelter, and good for her. But her idea of success gave me flashes of Gordon Gekko, “Greed is good!” Maybe it’s too soon after Mitt Romney ran for president. I can’t speak for others, but he came across to me as not so much an evil man as much as he came across as a blind man.
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