Eisboch wrote:
"hk" wrote in message
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
Always wondered what a community organizer does.

http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk...mericas-c.html

Now we know.


Some of us knew. Those of you on the right who live lives full of nothing
but self-indulgence. well, we wouldn't expect you to know about the
miserable lives millions of Americans lead. The community organizers and
organizations help them alleviate those miserable conditions.

They're an outgrowth of settlement houses.

But why would any of you wingnut turds know about those?


Maybe because some of us have been busy working, or starting and operating
businesses, creating jobs, paying taxes, raising a family and otherwise
being constructive members of society.

Why do you ask?

Eisboch





Some of my "ancestors" were helped along by the community
organizers/settlement houses when they arrived in this country, and
unlike the Republican wingnuts, remembered that help once they made it
here and did their best to help those immigrants and others who followed
in their footsteps.

My great uncle on my father's side gave away just about all of the
fortune he made here to organizations that provide first-line help to
the needy. He was busy working, starting and operating a business,
paying taxes, and raising a family, and ended up owning a significant
chain of retail stores that operated from Maine to Atlantic City, and
spent his retirement giving away virtually every dollar of his assets.
When I graduated from high school (he never got to go to school),
instead of a fancy graduation gift, I got a very nice pen and pencil
set, an unabridged dictionary, and a letter from a charitable
organization telling me my great uncle had made a substantial donation
in my name. His children told me he did the same thing when they
graduated high school. He paid for their college, of course, but after
that, they were expected to make it on their own.

He was not a self-indulgent wingnut. Neither were his kids.

My mother was a first-generation American, and remembered the generosity
of her poor immigrant parents, even in the worst of times. Her father
ran a butcher shop in Boston. During the Depression, he made sure the
poorest families in his neighborhood didn't go hungry. When he died,
most of his estate went to charities. My mother was by no means wealthy,
but before she died, we worked out a plan that enabled her to make
substantial donations to a number of worthy organizations that help the
poor. Oh...my mother was a Republican, but an old style Republican, not
one of the modern, "I've got mine, so screw you" Republicans.

Over the many years I've been reading this newsgroup. I've not noticed
that very many of its wealthier participants ever mention what they do,
financially or otherwise, to help those who could use a little help.
Perhaps that is because most of those who post here are Republican
wingnuts.

That's why I ask.