Personal responsibility...work ethic...family values.

[Career Prole]

The Holy Trinity of conservatism. Conservatives worship these on bended knee and offer up sacrifices to them. True, the sacrifices they offer up are not theirs to make. Their offerings are the sustenance that once went to unwed teen mothers.

"A hand up, not a handout", they say..."and never mind if it puts more money in my pocket, my motivations are pure and I never even considered the money...honest!"
They only want what's best for mother and child. Honest...
Imagine if you will "America the Beautiful" playing softly in the background now.

My conservative friends, I am pleased to announce I have found your poster girl!
Pregnant at the tender age of 15, she simultaneously raised her daughter while raising herself by her "bootstraps". A junior accounting major at Illinois State University, she is described by ISU professor Joyce Ostroskyone as an excellent student, destined for great things.

I'll bet conservatives would love to speak to this girl, perhaps ask her to share the secret of her improbable success with all the people of America. Sign her up for some speaking engagements since she so personifies the conservative vision of how their Holy Trinity can work if only those single welfare moms wouldn't be so damned shiftless.
"When can we meet this girl?", conservatives will ask, "we must speak with her now...she is the figurehead we've been looking for!"

You can't meet her, my conservative friends.
You can't even speak with her, nor she with you.
Your president has killed her.

DoD Identifies Army Casualty

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Spc. Jessica L. Cawvey, 21, of Normal, Ill., died Oct. 6 in Fallujah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near her convoy vehicle. Cawvey was assigned to the Army’s National Guard’s 1544th Transportation Company, Paris, Ill.
http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2004/nr20041008-1364.html


Illinois Soldier Killed In Iraq
Updated October 8, 2004 5:20pm

...Cawvey had been living in Normal before her deployment. Cawvey was a junior accounting major at Illinois State University. ISU professor Joyce Ostrosky says Cawvey had to leave school before the end of the fall semester when she was called up last year. She described Cawvey as an excellent student who was going to do great things.

She leaves behind a six-year-old daughter.
http://week.com/morenews/morenews-read.asp?n=5885

Visiting freepers, why was this wonderful girl fighting this war of yours while you spend your time running around the backroads where I live, tossing beer bottles out the windows and yelling "Yeee-haw! Kill 'em all!"?
How in God's name do you live with yourselves?

[Career Prole]

1. This must have gotten lost in the debate excitement when all eyes were

on GD2004.
I should add I took some "artistic license" regarding Jessica's situation, for all I know her folks were "upper one-percenters".
I rather doubt it though.:(
:kick:

[Career Prole]

2. Kick! C'mon folks...let's give it up for Jessica Cawvey!

Killed at 21 in Iraq. :(
:kick:

[Career Prole]

3. Maybe it was the title? One last kick for Jessica then I'll hang it up as

lost cause.
:kick:

[TahitiNut]

4. "Work, Family, Fatherland"

Henri-Philippe Petain led the right-wing government of Vichy France. The famous revolutionary principles of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity) were replaced by Travail, Familie, Patrie (Work, Family, Fatherland).

Sound familiar?

[Career Prole]

7. Yes...chillingly familiar.

The signs are there, aren't they?

[Deja Q]

5. It's funny, what they say while they destroy families by not providing

the means for such hard working people to get ahead.

The good jobs keep disappearing while piddle crap stores are hiring left and right.

It's like "Mars Attacks!" where the aliens slaughtered us while telling us they were our friends.

[Career Prole]

9. And every channel you turn to, the news folks are saying just what the

Martians said...
"Ack ack...ackackack...ack-ack ack ack.."

[haele]

6. They're not really concerned with her.

Or with anything but mouthing their mantras that in her case would consist of "Real Americans are moral and wouldn't have made poor choices" and "We're Compassionate Conservatives - we'll give her a chance to correct her mistake if she's willing to work hard for it the rest of her life".
She and her dreams and her daughter had to do with reality, not the "Leave it to Beaver" world they hold as the perfect representation of American Family. And the eyes of most so-called compassionate conservative, having had a daughter at 15 - well, that means that she was born to be a slut, a bad seed who could not be trusted to make moral choices, and to be a deserving American citizen she'd need a major dose of both tough love and pertinence to make up for her poor actions and her parent's poor choice of letting her grow up to become pregnant at 14 in the first place.

Heck, she wasn't rich or smart enough to be able to go to college without joining the Guard or Reserves. That was her major moral failing...not being rich.

Smug Pharisees and hypocrites. To many so-called compassionate conservative GOP types I'm familiar with, someone like her would have finally "showed her worth" and can now be considered a good citizen - because she's dead. Even if she left behind a 6 year old born out of wedlock child - a child that despite mouthed platitudes for, they would have no pity for unless she was cute and mostly white girl that could be "saved" from a life of foster families, possible teen pregnancy, and acquaintance with poor and lower middle class low-lifes and losers.

Haele

(Excuse the Saturday morning bitterness, but this week I've had to deal with way too many opinionated jerks who think that since they belong to "the 3-G Club" (GOP, God, and amassing expensive Goods), they can sneer at the "lesser trash" that have to work hard and do without to make a living for themselves and their families.

[Career Prole]

8. Bitterness excused, of course. There's a time and a place for bitterness

This is the time, and this is the place. That was a beautiful post.
Young Jessica was the "all-volunteer army" that the chimp was yelling about last night.
What bullshit. Jessica was trying to make a life for herself and her daughter the only way they'd left her, and it killed her.
You're right to be bitter. I know I am.