Outrage.\u00a0 That\u2019s the word.\u00a0 Normally I\u2019m very articulate, but I\u2019ve been finding it difficult to find words.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been stunned by the information about the budget passed by the New Hampshire House of Representatives.\u00a0 I knew it was bad, but I never imagined how bad.\u00a0 It is immoral, unjust, unfair \u2014 I can\u2019t find words for how bad it is \u2014 I would say inhuman, but we\u2019ve seen human beings do some pretty awful things.\u00a0 What the Nazis did to the Jews was bad enough \u2014 and what the Turks did to the Armenians, and the Americans to the Cherokee nation \u2014 but it was done against a relatively healthy population of adults who at least had some strengths.\u00a0 This budget \u2014 taking money away from programs that, with already inadequate funding, are trying to help the poor and needy, the homeless and disabled, to take money away from the most helpless \u2014 this is worse than killing civilians in war time, this is deliberate cruelty to people whose lives are hard enough as it is.\u00a0 The most shameful part is the information that returning veterans are the \u201cfastest growing populations in the homeless shelters\u201d. They risk their lives for our \u201cfreedom\u201d and then are treated like this?\u00a0 I don\u2019t feel like an \u201cAmerican\u201d, I feel like a third world country occupied and exploited by \u201cAmerica.\u201d I keep thinking of the quote from Matthew (Chapter 26 at the end) where Jesus says \u201cInasmuch as ye have done it unto the least of these, ye have done it also to me.\u201d I hope that those who passed this budget will one day understand what they\u2019ve done and be ashamed.<\/p>\n
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