cynical

So it has been brought to my attention that my previous post has come off as considerably more cynical than I had intended. While I did not intend for the post to be cold or mean spirited, a second reading a few days removed from writing it did lend some insight into how people could potentially perceive what I had written. I never intended to downplay the difficulties that people face in their lives and the hardships that people must overcome to be successful human beings. I'd be the first to acknowledge and praise people that have overcome those tremendous circumstances. However, I stand by the statement that an individual, regardless of what family they were born into, what neighborhood they grew up in, or what school they went to should be capable of supporting themselves in this country. I really should have placed more emphasis on what I meant by individual. By individual I intended to convey someone that has no other people to support-no kids, no ailing parents or relatives, no brothers or sisters to raise. No responsibilities besides finding ones own meal for that night. I fully understand the fact that it is incredibly difficult if not impossible for a mother or father to raise children on their own if they don't have an education or a well paying job. It's a fact about this country that troubles me greatly. It's incredibly unfortunate that we as a country and we as individual communities across the United States don't do more for people in those circumstances. It's unfortunate that we don't do more for people addicted to drugs. It's reprehensible that we don't do more for single mothers living in poverty. We don't improve inner city schools, we don't build homeless shelters, we don't give money to the poor, we don't improve child and family services, we don't change our failing foster care programs. There's a lot we don't do, that I, as an American believe we should do. It's why I'm a democrat-I have hope for improving this country, not maintaining it just as is. Republicans always talk about maintaining our national security, maintaining the "sanctity" of marriage, maintaining our schools-I don't want to maintain, I want to improve.
My last post came off badly-i was just trying to say that the concept of being responsible for only yourself and having no downfalls like drugs or alcoholism and still not being able to make enough money just so that you can eat your own dinner that night-well, that concept seems gone. It's not necessarily bad that it's gone-it's just gone. There aren't many people doing cattle drives for no other reason than the fact that the rancher hiring them is gonna feed them for the 6 months they work. That's all I was trying to say. I'm a cynical bastard sometimes and the night I wrote that post was apparently one of them. So I apologize for upsetting anybody. Shit, this is probably gonna bite me in the ass when I'm running for Democratic Senator out of Illinois. Oh well.
Lyric:
"You're so beautiful to look at when you cry."
Pavement Shady Lane -Music snob for life.