Recovering

‘I am real!’ said Alice and began to cry.

‘You won’t make yourself a bit realler by crying,’ Tweedledee remarked

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‘If I wasn’t real,’ Alice said — half-laughing though her tears, it all seemed so ridiculous —‘I shouldn’t be able to cry.’

never complained

My mother died last week, at 97. She lived through tough times and I don't know if she ever had a happy period.  Her family did not let her study medicine, so she studied philosophy. Started as a teacher and later became a psychologist. She had an extraordinary capacity to listen, but was probably too compassionate for a psychologist. She wrote several books. About twenty of her research papers on youth development were published in specialty journals.  In her seventies, she worked as a cashier. In her late eighties she started to collect cooking recipes  for cookies and  tortes. Each one had a date and the name of the provider. The last entry was her own marvelous nut cake.

Who's entitled now?

Obama's infrastructure argument is easily refuted by what is essentially a controlled social experiment. Roads and schools are the constant. What's variable is the energy, enterprise, risk-taking, hard work and genius of the individual. It is therefore precisely those individual characteristics, not the communal utilities, that account for the different outcomes. This is from Krauthammer. 

True. How true!

 But what we have is the unwillingness of one entitled class to contribute to roads and schools, to  the constant, to contribute in a fair way. The genius of the individuals that feel entitled to infinite riches. Seems to me the one-percenters  are claiming and feel more entitled than the poor.  The risk taking individual that doesn't care to pay the communal utilities bill.