OUR SHAMEFUL COUNTRY
As I drive around Los Angeles, the Valley, Santa Clarita I see various things and people. Some good and some not so good. We live, for the most part, in very comfortable homes. We have nice properties and are generally doing quite well by most worldly standards.
My point in this is that there are people that are less fortunate than ourselves, and we should do what we can to assist, to lift them up, to make, or help make them productive members of society. These people are not bad people, but we turn away when we see them, we try not to make eye contact, we don't want to admit that we are part of the problem. In a country as afluent as ours, why are there people who stand on street corners and freeway offramps with signs that state "hungry homeless vet". It is an abomination, with the way we tend to pamper our pets, that we cannot get these "vets" employed and off the street. Why, with their training and expertise, can't they open a vaccination clinic, or maybe get involved in the grooming industry. Yes, brothers and sisters, gather you animals and take them to a street corner near you TODAY! Let them apply their training in the veterinary arts, that they may get the heck off the darn corners and stop giving me guilty feelings.
My point in this is that there are people that are less fortunate than ourselves, and we should do what we can to assist, to lift them up, to make, or help make them productive members of society. These people are not bad people, but we turn away when we see them, we try not to make eye contact, we don't want to admit that we are part of the problem. In a country as afluent as ours, why are there people who stand on street corners and freeway offramps with signs that state "hungry homeless vet". It is an abomination, with the way we tend to pamper our pets, that we cannot get these "vets" employed and off the street. Why, with their training and expertise, can't they open a vaccination clinic, or maybe get involved in the grooming industry. Yes, brothers and sisters, gather you animals and take them to a street corner near you TODAY! Let them apply their training in the veterinary arts, that they may get the heck off the darn corners and stop giving me guilty feelings.
posted by Scott at 8:21 PM
3 Comments:
I going right now to scoop up the wife-unit's cats and take them to the nearest street vet. Thank you, my brother, for raising my awareness level on this very timely issue.
You're bad. Bad. Bad. Bad.
Can we take the female dog to one of those vets next time she gets bit by a snake? Maybe they would charge less...
No wonder the homeless vets love you.
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