NOT FUNNY

O.K., I am an old fart with lots of experience in the world. I am not of the millennial generation.

To dismiss and make fun of anything that might help the poor and disadvantaged as as been done by the Daily Show and others is just plain unconscionable. Those folks in the media go home to their expensive Manhattan apartments, smiling like cheshire cats. What do they know about empty bellies and empty minds? Their kids go to private schools, get picked up in limousines, and eat wonderful food. Eventually the kids will go to Yale.

Here, in this poorest of rural communities in America, kids are hungry. They never have enough of anything. Many of these kids and their families are undocumented. They live in fear every day.

But these parents, like all of those at the Daily Show, want the best for their kids.

The Affordable Care Act has many problems, we all agree. But, please give this idea of helping so many a chance.

The other day I was in a place that cares for kids after school. There was plenty to like there, but what was so bad was a staff member who made small kids feel small and incompetent when they were doing what little kids do.

To me, it is not funny to make fun of the best instincts we Americans have. Seems to me that it dismisses the best about our young generations. Should we think that they can only connect to the important issues of the day with broad satire, tweets, etc.?  What is happening is pandering to the commercial and the money.

I would love to have some of these folks who make fortunes from japing serious problems in our society to live for a week in public housing with $100 a week for a family of seven.