January 3 , 2013 Page 3 One Man’s Opinion Political Penguin By Gerry Chong fathers of their children split up before the By Duane Plank firearm-toting misfit. But adults were also Among the many emotions man conveys child is 10 years old, leaving the mother with Time for the year-end political review. Which gunned down, and, one boldly assumes, only to his fellow man, the most noble must be years of sole responsibility of parenthood. is incredibly tainted after viewing the horrific because they tried to shield the young kids that of “compassion.” Contained within USA Today goes on to state that 80 percent events in Newtown, Connecticut a couple of from the snap-crackle-pop of the angst ridden compassion are the feelings of understanding, of Black children and 58 percent of Hispanic weeks ago. killer Lanza and his arsenal. forgiveness, and a sharing of human frailty. births are to single mothers, exacerbating Now, I feel very privileged to have this So the political review for 2012 will be a For Democrats, compassion is the essential the problem of minority poverty. bully pulpit available to me, to be able to tad short, but will be continued next week. heart of their DNA and it oozes from every The Heritage Foundation says children pontificate on the body politic every week. Maybe. Subject to breaking events that may pore. For Republicans, not so much. For in households with married parents are 82 But occasionally gets a little tough when the transcend a recap of the fact that the POTUS that reason Republicans have a difficult percent less likely to be poor; while 75 deadline hits a week before publication. was able to turn back a pretty darn good effort conveying a caring but rational message percent of means tested welfare payments Specially when the carnage of Newtown made by Mitt “The Glove” Romney and the occurs. Now, I am what I am. Never have fired Republicans to take back the White House. a gun, nor a bow-and-arrow. Nor any weapon Back in the early part of 2012, Romney was “The Heritage Foundation says children in households with married designed to kill someone else. Call me a pacifist. the presumed front-runner for the Elephant Party parents are 82 percent less likely to be poor; while 75 percent of Or someone who doesn’t need a firearm to nomination. Per usual, the ebb and flow of the means tested welfare payments go to single parents.” prove my manhood. Or, I guess, to protect campaign, which the 24-7 media demands, my acreage from the invading British hordes. tiltled the Republican nomination favor in the Oh yeah, that was two-hundred and forty direction of some lady from Minnesota, and a to the public. go to single parents. years ago. pizza guy from down South, and then a canned, For Republicans, the need for compassion Study upon study point out that children of Just disgusted with the political opportunism unemployed ex-Governor from the Keystone state. is too often brought on by a conscious, single parents are more likely to be abused; that occurred after the little kids were Pennsylvania, for those of you slow on the take. irrational act. Had that act not occurred are more likely to live in impoverished assassinated, many of them shot in the head Anyway, Michelle Bachmann soon gave compassion would not have been required. neighborhoods; are more likely to be school multiple times. Typical libs, led by the fossil it up, as did pizza man Herman Cain. Cain, Let me cite an example: drop outs; and are exposed to drugs and California Senator Feinstein, waited for a day was, ye gads, caught in some sort of possible We can all empathize with the plight of alcohol at an earlier age. Later, they are or two, and then blathered on for gun-control. marital scandal. Can we all grow up, folks, the single mother as she struggles to balance more likely to be incarcerated and earn And, the NRA morons somehow spun it, and realize that if alleged marital dalliances career and motherhood. That is compassion. less than the median income. The pain and somehow, someway, that…not even sure how disqualified folks from attaining positions of But for some women, motherhood itself is suffering are visited equally on the child, the gun-toting idiots could spin this carnage power, we may have a pretty shallow pool of an irrational act. The U.S. Department of the single parent and society in general. that was perpetrated on kids. candidates to draw from? Agriculture now estimates that it takes a Government spending, in no small part, is But, facts are facts. Innocent people died. So all of the Republican Presidential minimum of $235,000 to raise a child to a reflection of the consequences of single Blown away with firearms. Sported by a 20-year- challengers, including the gadfly Newt Gingrich, the age of 17. (It would take more if they parenthood. old kid. Who apparently was plagued with an who was campaigning hard as possible to sell were responsible for their child’s Obamacare With all of these facts well known, some ailment that has been labeled as Asperger’s books and pump up his appearance fees, fell by insurance until the age of 26); a sum too might think our national leadership would syndrome? Which is a mild form of autism. the wayside. Leaving the unemployed Santorum many mothers cannot manage on their own. make marriage a national crusade. Instead Thanks for a column supporter for enlightening as the Romney alternative. Santorum was a In fact, the New York Times, quoting the we are faced with a wall of silence on the me on that, so much was lost in what seems nice story for a couple of months, but with National Center for Health, says our nation source of the problem, focusing instead on to always be the rush to be the first to report. relatively zilch dinero and no staff, couldn’t has crossed an important threshold in that compassion for the mother. And, yes, most of the focus has been on compete with the Romney well-oiled machine. more than half of all births to women under Hillary Clinton was wrong when she said the 20 toddlers who were blown away by the More next week on this. Maybe. • the age of 30 are to single mothers…53 “it takes a village to raise a child.” In fact, percent, to be exact. 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