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[Divine Discontent]

When I look into their pain-filled eyes and hear their words saying they HOPE that they'll be able to either, - find a job, get over their physical or mental illness that's kept them from working, or simply be able to go back home to their family that rejects them, I often look to the other people around us to help me deal with the emotional overload - and I don't see you Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Liz Cheney, Michelle Malkin, Michael Savage, or matter of fact, any of your loud-mouthed backers.

In fact, when I talk to the people who I've been around that were being nice or helping people in need - they're all liberal in thought. The hyper-cynical haters of humanity are nowhere to be found, and yet, these screamers of lies who say we should only have private charities and remove public spending from those 'leeches who live off our taxes', well, I just can't seem to find them.

When I had my arm around a lady named, "Precious", who I met in a hospital who had no one with her while she was going through her chemo, and she was coughing up and in pain and thanked me for taking the time to talk to her, I wondered where those great charitable GOPers like Sen. Coburn were at, to help "individually as neighbors" share the community burden of this woman who was all alone? You'd think there'd be 10 or 15 Republicans there with this lady in a county that is heavily Republican, right? Maybe I'm wrong. (cough cough)

When I helped a 400 pound woman named, "Laura", with food & a blanket, who wasn't even allowed to ride city buses because of complaints of the smell, I didn't see any 'freedom fighters' of the right, there helping her with me (only a rich lady in a $70K SUV calling the cops on me and saying 'you only encourage her to stick around here').

When I look around at these other volunteers who are helping those in need - I see merciful, and compassionate souls who are extremely progressive in thought. But, I apologize, I do know there are certainly a decent percentage of Republicans who give their time to those in need, and more so, just like all people, who give donations instead of time, even if I meet so very few of them. And we all know about the pronouncements of people like Rush giving a million dollars to charity for Sen Reid's condemnation letter, but it's not more so the money that matters (and the ensuing media press and tax write-offs), it's the time given in applying the care-giving and the listening to these people's horrible pains that matters most.

Extreme conservatives don't want to believe, or want us to believe, that anyone is on government support who truly deserves it. Yesterday, I received a wet-behind-the-ears rebuke email from an old conservative friend. He told me I was a pie-in-the-sky dreamer for thinking there are people who actually want off state & gov't support. He says they all have nicer electronics than he does, and they feign illness or say there's nothing out there. It was disgusting to read, and I let him know of 3 stories of people that I know of first hand, with details, and told him, I help people when I can and see their actions and motivations, and yes, there are many who are users and don't want help, but there are certainly more than the 1% he cited who want to work and make a living, and he'd find that out if he got out from time to time and put himself in uncomfortable situations to try and help even one person change their life, or at the least, know that they're not alone.

So to all the Coulters, Cheneys and Savages out there, in regards to never seeing you or other hard-conservatives DOING charitable and compassionate acts, I will give you the benefit of the doubt and say, I must have missed you when you were there...