Al Sharpton is upset. Democrats aren't being proactive enough about being passive.

Seriously. I could post the clip here, I do it enough, but ... Nah. I really don't want him here.

Maybe if all was well and you could sit down and know that your livelihood was taken care of and your children were taken care of and you had all of your health care needs covered, I could see it.

Y'know, at different times in my life I've been hungry and I've been full. In the former case, the government was sometimes to blame, directly or indirectly. In the latter, I never had the government to thank. On those occasions when all was well, my livelihood and child were taken care of and all our health care needs were covered, it wasn't because of somebody I'd voted for. It wasn't because I'd convinced a sugar daddy to rob somebody else and give the proceeds to me. There are many things in my life about which I'm less than completely proud, but I never worked for the government and I never sold my soul for a handout from it.

I'm kind of retired now. My child is grown, my responsibilities are minimal, and I'm really not interested in holding a regular job. I live on a variable income that averages somewhere around fifty dollars a week. On that income, I'm building a house. And when I take money it's generally because of something I did to earn it. And when I accept kindness from friends they know they can expect kindness in return, because that's the way my friends and I treat one another.

I don't have a lot, but I have that. And you know what? I think that makes me richer by far than Al Sharpton and all the parasites in his audience, no matter how extensive their belongings. They could heap treasures to the sky and still never be filled, because there would always be a demagogue to tell them they deserve more of someone else's time and toil. And so they will never know the key to a contented life, which is how to be hungry and how to be full. They will never understand that good in life never, ever comes from what you can take from others, no matter how fervently you believe that those others deserve to be taken from.

They will never have life, no matter if they end their days in mansions. And though I'll admit that I have no sympathy for the fate of a parasite, sometimes I do find that sad.