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Journal of Lucretia (7336)
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Lucretia (7336)
Lucretia
  {Lucretia2000} {at} {hotmail.com}
Likes puddy tats, the smell of fresh rain showers and reading true crime. Hates liars and phoney people who put on airs! Character most like-Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. Collects small ornate boxes and puddy tats made from a variety of materials.

Tuesday December 18, 07
10:26 AM - Suffer little children
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Well it’s that time of year again when everyone has a sob story to tell. Our department sponsors a couple of low income families for food and gifts. I didn’t participate last year and have reluctantly participated this year. Trust me my contribution is pretty meager, 2 bags of pasta that I purchased for $1 each at the Dollar store.

Everyone has their hand out; Salvation Army, Food Bank, Stollery Children’s Hospital, Homeless Shelters and Santa’s Anonymous, Adopt-a-Teen just to name a few. While I think it’s nice that people open their purse strings this time of year but what about the rest of the year? The City already takes mandatory Charity contributions off my cheque and I’m living with a senior on a small pension that needs to be subsidized. The Assessors I’m working with make 3 to 5 times what I do plus they are mostly double income familes and give me a strange look when I say “I’m sorry not this year”. I feel guilty as hell over it but I would want my monies going towards a Canadian family in need and that can’t be guaranteed.

I grew up poor so poor in fact that one winter my mother had to get free knuckle bones from the butcher (said they were for our dogs) to make soup with. We also had no tv, no phone and being Jehovah’s Witness to boot, so there was no x-mas anyways. Now that’s a sob story for you and it’s all true.

I didn’t really mind those lean times as the drinking was less in my house and we seemed closer by sharing our misery. I learned to love reading as it was the closest thing to escape I could get. I learned to get by with second hand clothes and the company of my pets. Plus the hours upon hours I’d spend sledding in the winter and biking in the summer. Those lean times made me appreciate things more when I did get something new or when we finally got a t.v. (second-hand black and white).

My mother was either too proud or too embarrassed and would NEVER in a million years ask for a hand-out. People these days seem to have no shame, just how many people who request assistance really need it? I’m probably going to be politically incorrect here when I get upset by foreigners coming in and using our resources. I can go as far back as the ship Hector in 1773 on my mother’s side so I feel confident in saying I’m a true bread Canadian.

The news showed people delivering gifts for Santa’s Anonymous and the 3 homes they showed were of dark skinned families where one actually couldn’t speak English, the daughter had to talk to the media. Do these people even have Christmas where they come from? I don’t think they pray to Jesus after bombing for Allah. It peeves me a little when there are homeless families living in tents in our River Valley but these families receiving gifts are in a bigger home than I and have more creature comforts then I could ever afford to have.

BaHumbug and let the fallout begin…….
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Also (Score:0)
There are many "dark-skinned" true "bread" Canadians.
Would you feel better if your $2 worth of expired dollar store pasta were going to white-skinned foreigners? What is the difference?
There is more than a hint of hate in your tirade.
Anonymous -- Tuesday December 18 2007, @10:50AM (#289021)
Yes! (Score:0)
I see where you're coming from, many people abuse charity at this time of year, there are so many jobs available where you live, there is No excuse!
Lazy Lazy!
Anonymous -- Tuesday December 18 2007, @12:25PM (#289046)
Indeed, what about the other 364 days?! (Score:1)
RE: "While I think it’s nice that people open their purse strings this time of year but what about the rest of the year?"

Imagine how many problems of poverty and over-population would be solved if everyone treated EVERYDAY as if it were Christmas?

Ah, the concept is just too obvious hence simple hence far too COMPLICATED for anyone to even consider, eh? Also! It negates all the schemes of big corporations: Potter and Pottersville in the film, "It's A Wonderful Life"!

I applaud your entry, Lucretia, it has given me clearer insight to your kind soul.
J. Razor -- Tuesday December 18 2007, @07:02PM (#289154)
(User #724 Info)
 I'm Alone
'It Ain't Necessarily So"-Bronski Beat (Score:1)
Maybe these families were in shelters. Some shelters are nice looking.

There is no such thing as getting something for nothing. I don't believe it's as simple as from dust to dust, but that collectively, karma continues to remodel us universally and that no one is spared.

In the heat of the moment I can get angry and lose sight of this but when I'm finally lucid and calm I know it's true.

Bronski Beat:

Da ra da am de ra am de
Ba ra ba am dee da am doo
Ba ra am de ba ra am de
Da ra doo dee

It aint necessarily so
It aint necessarily so
The things that youre liable
To read in the bible
It aint necessarily so

David was small but oh my
David was small but oh my
He shot goliath
Who lay down and dieth
Little david was small but oh my

Da ra da am de ra am de
Ba ra ba am dee da am doo
Ba ra am de ba ra am de
Da ra doo dee

Jonah he lived in a whale
Jonah he lived in a whale
He made his home in that fishes abdomen
Jonah he lived in a whale

Moses was found on a stream
Moses was found on a stream
Floated on water old pharoahs daughter
Fished him she says from that stream

It aint necessarily so
It aint necessarily so
They tell all your children
The devil hes a billain
It aint necessarily so

Da ra da am de ra am de
Ba ra ba am dee da am doo
Ba ra am de ba ra am de
Da ra doo dee

It aint necessarily so
It aint necessarily so

Things that youre liable
To read in that bible
It aint necessarily so
It aint necessarily
It aint necessarily
It aint necessarily
It aint necessarily
It aint necessarily
It aint necessarily
It aint necessarily so
redpathetic <redpathetic@yahoo.com> -- Tuesday December 18 2007, @09:13PM (#289179)
(User #6184 Info | http://www.myspace.com/redpathy )
 Happy in this final acceptance of his own absurdity...Albert Camus
and once again i turn to you... (Score:0)
once again i do, i turn to you..
Anonymous -- Monday December 31 2007, @06:49PM (#290066)

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