You’d think these greedy monkeys would at least wait a week or so after the minimum wage/estate tax-cut fiasco before cutting poor people even more!  These guys just don’t seem to be able to comprehend that a LOT of folks are finally on to them, and more coming on board every day.  How hypocritical is it to keep giving themselves large pay raises annually (in the dark of night hoping no one’s watching) but no rise in the minimum wage in 9 years?  Are we not supposed to notice also, that in effect, there has been a PAY CUT because no matter what anyone says there is inflation hitting everyone who has to count pennies - your dollar is NOT worth nearly as much as it was in 2000 when these robbers took over.  Remember the surplus? Remember when Saddam was Bush 1’s ally?  Anyone remember the pictures of Daddy B and Rummy shaking hands with Saddam - how else did he get all the poison he used on the Kurds?  So many questions - why is it that noone is still demanding answers?  How come banks and medical facilities can keep billing records, etc. but GW’s military records just “disappeared”?  My whole family has been in the military - my Dad and my twin brother both retired from the Navy, my folks met in the Navy , my mom taught electronics and is a Korean War vet in her own right - NONE of their records have ever been lost!  Has anyone else had their records completely lost - I’d like to know if this is a real problem or an engineered cleanup operation.  And why is it that every ATM can give you a receipt and leave a complete and comprehensive paper trail, but electronic voting machines can’t?  And why is it that, with the technology easily avaiable today, that Diebold can’t make their voting machines just a little, teensy bit hard to hack into?  The nation had to come to nearly a complete stop, costing at least $40 million, to watch Bill Clinton lie about a blowjob but it’s business as usual while these guys perjure, subvert the Constitution, lie, cheat, steal and break the long standing tradition of never pre-emptively attacking anyone, especially since it just so turns out that the information they were using to justify the attack was so wrong.  I do think the world is a better place for removing Saddam, but it’s been obvious for a while now that the war was started and continues based on lies and this entire administration appears to be incapable of telling the truth if their lives depended on it. Oh yeah - THEIR lives DON’T depend on it, only other mother’s children.  We have Mothers Against Drunk Driving and it’s an important and politically active organization - How about a bunch of moms make these very bad people stop killing our nation’s finest for money and power.
If what they are doing is so noble and vital, why is that they have to keep lying and lying and lying?  So many questions…...

I think your cow and calf analogy is useful. In the wild the cow and calf would come to their own accords in regard to suckling. As to education, alma mater means fostering mother. As to breast feeding among upper class women, traditionally this has been outsourced to mammies and wet nurses. Many privileged children had more attachment to their wet nurses than their souces of issue. Then there is the word matriculation, which is a form for “mater”. Students are fed knowledge by their “mother”.

For awhile the Spartan mother was considered the ideal for the upper class lad in the 19th century. The classical Spartan matriarch sent away her boy at the age of 5 or 6 for the academy, where he could get a basic education that weighed heavily on military instruction. The Civil War in the States was powered by such men of austerity.

Curiously the United States is known for idealizing motherhood and family, and yet our literature, our angst is powered by a throat tightening sense of abandonment. From Tom Sawyer to Holden Caulfield to Starbuck, we have our orphan alter egos. Listen as well to the negro spirituals crying over familial dissolution.

I am reminded of Honore De Balzac, who had an attraction to buxom women. His explanation was, “Jamais, j’ai connu l’amour maternel.”

The aspect of welfare that has been attacked the most has been meeting work requrements with education. Republicans have led that charge with the silent acquiesence of the Democrats. It seems government and industry would rather provide pap than sustenance. It’s a public-private partnership of matricide and infanticide. This is not at a blood and guts level, well not yet, but still it is at the expense of healty aspiration and realization. When it comes down to precipatating out the poison, are we not talking about culling the herd? How else do we make good veal if we don’t wean the calf early, so that it may be fed the pap? Good coloration and flavor are lost from maternal cow’s milk.

The bureaucratic system is like one aspect of farming.  When a calf is to be weaned one must also spend a good deal of time with the cow as well—because she wants to suckle the calf.  It’s equally as instinctive with bureaucracies.
You know the metaphor.

Collin

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