At a town hall meeting hosted by NewsNation's Cuomo, Bill O'Reilly, and Steven A. Smith, a black man who worked as an air traffic controller, spoke of how he had to take a second job in order to put his daughter through college. Smith erupted in righteous indignation: "That this man should have to work two jobs!... etc, etc." Meanwhile, Cuomo rose and offered the man $10,000 of his own money to help him with his bills. The man was ecstatic, as was his daughter, who stood beside him. It was all rather pathetic.
Forget the performative Cuomo. It is the black man who stood out. First, an air traffic controller, I imagine, makes good money. We should have thanked Cuomo but refused his charity. Rather, he should have said: "I did not come here to garner sympathy for myself and my family. I can support us. I am speaking for the millions of fathers and mothers who love their children as much as I love mine, but who earn less than half of what I make."
Protect your dignity, man, and your self-respect, rather than exploit this made-for-T.V. spectacle, which is no more than a triumph of greed and vanity.
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President Trump told Greenland officials that America will have Greenland as a part of the U.S., "... one way or another." Funny that Ukraine's president, Zelensky, wants Trump to help him with Russia's Putin while Trump is busy trying to do to Greenland and Venezuela what Putin is doing to Ukraine. Trump even sounds like Putin, who told the Ukrainians: "Either cede us the territory we demand - the Donbas - or we take it all!"
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Forty years ago, I wrote a poem, "Forty, and Out" - asserting that at 40 you make the decision whether to be an old young man, or a young old man. The smart answer is the latter; there, you have a lot more to work with. The former is simply a path to self-delusion, as you busily try to convince everyone that, "I still got it!" No, you don't. Youth is fleeting much faster than you will ever be again.
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Stop producing the penny... why? So what if it costs a nickel to produce a penny? You can use that penny over and over for a hundred years!
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