Never Forget.

Shades of Barry Obama:

"They made promises that are not going to be kept," said Selena Thornton, 45, who works in nearby Caswell County in North Carolina. "Discrimination has been around since how long? Since the beginning of time. And just inviting black people to events is not the answer to that."

In other news, Prof. Camic of UW-Law shows how the Wisconsin tax system can be used to bring one's indigent mother into Dane County for social services support.

Camic, former wife of the former noted sociology professor at UW now at Northwestern, came to America to work as a peasant in-house girl for the then-NYT publisher, helping as a nanny for his daughter. Camic the travelled extensively, and wrote memorably at the man's death, of helping him polish kitchenware after dinner, while his own wife and daughter visited elsewhere in the summer home.

Today, Prof. Camic -- the wife who, like her daughter, secured a teaching position at UW-Law herself, writes that it looks like her indigent elderly mother, recently relocated from Berkeley, will qualify for a living accommodation in the Madison suburb of Verona! Rejoice.

Both Prof. Camic's daughters work (Yale and Harvard grads, they are), and their husbands have solid jobs, but with children of their own to raise, and immigrant generational family care not what it once was, this taxpayer assistance for their grandmother likely frees up family finances for both girls to invest in the trips and opportunities that under their mother's tutelage, they have now no doubt become accustomed themselves, as elite Americans...

An American success story, then?
Or something sadly much more 21 Century?

Either way, we wish the Dane County newcomer well. So many others can only wish to come to this state to unlock free public housing -- African-Americans from Cook County, Illinois, say -- nevermind bringing their parents in to qualify for taxpayer care.

It's enough to make you understand how taxpayers subsidize upper-class White Privilege: how an old Communist lady from Poland (where Prof. Camic now owns property herself -- an international property-owner, she is!), and then Berkeley, with wealthy relatives who surely could afford grandma's care if she were indeed looking at homelessness -- her daughter, and her daugher's daughters (one an Episcopalian now!), marry, assimilate into entitledness, reproduce, and push through the paperwork to qualify their elder for public funds in the great State of Wisconsin -- to understand why this country is where we are today, and where we are likely headed.
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ADDED: Means testing, means testing, means teasting...

If your extended family can afford the trips, the toys, the fancy wines and cheeses, then they should have to sign a form abandoning their elder to public care.

Sure, show us the family celebrations, the inherited wealth and affluence from in-laws too, the company Christmas parties on the arm of the owner... and then tell us that you prefer your fellow liberal taxpayers to care for your parents and grandparents.

Honor Thy Mother and Father.

It's okay to be irreligious, and to model me-first values. Look at what it gets you: international travel at the drop of a hat to visit with childhood friends at the holidays. The world's best in imports, carried in via suitcases meticulously travelling to those foreign places to sample the best of the best. Underinvesting in automobile safety features to protect fellow motorists who share the road (truth be told, sometimes not even maintaining your own automobile up to standard code, figuring that flat tires and lack of fluids are somehow, good for the environment to cheap out)...

I like blogs because daily we share and exchange information, voluntarily.

People don't often understand, within the confines of their own gilded cages, what messages they are sending to others. If you have no moral qualms about tranferring the debts of your family elders -- should they be incurring them late in life due to poor planning, poor health, or abandoned family committments -- or other misfortune -- onto other less involved taxpayers who do not share your family bonds, then perhaps you need to audit a tax law class at your own state university law school.

Nevermind the credentials, if that's your bag, the tax-saving family skills can be taught and trained to be put in practice. Much like the young, underpaid working-mother caregivers who are often employed and commute into places like that to provide daily taxpayer-provided assistance. It's just societal, family cost-shifting. You wonder how many young relationships break up with a young mother providing extensive, often exhausting human care -- for pay-- to another outside her own family like that. Sad.

What might the world be if instead, she could stay home to raise the next generation, instead of seeing somebody else's loved one out?

That's called Family Responsibility -- the opposite of state aid and communism, right? Funny how the upper-middle-class, more than the poor families, are always most benefitted by the cries for more government family help, like subsidized daycare schools (non religious) and college tuition write offs.