Not really, but I thank you for the opportunity to once again HERALD my patriotism as a law abiding AMERICAN.
The lesson here is not that we Americans are uncivilised, but rather, when a need was not met by the local profiteering company in charge of providing a necessary utility service to the community, the community itself gathered together and even members in the service of the profiteering private establishment came to the rescue of the family in need. We, as a community, stepped up to meet the needs of our own.
At the toll of the bell, it will be seven hours past the mid day toll and all is well.
What you did was very lovely to help out your neighbour, to help them with the bill. THAT post was made after my initial question as to whether the children were able to bathe.
You have to understand that our entire economy is established upon the idea that we all pull our own weight and we "pay as we go," in theory.
Sweeping statement. How does establishing a country on the efforts of slavery correlate into your theory of Americans pulling their own weight? Oops, sorry, another sweeping statement.
You see, it's like this....I asked about the children bathing, and the over blown 'oh my God no one can attack our country' mentality comes out. It's a bit like the schoolyard bully, which I've stated before.
Yes, your statement DID remind me of a great many encounters with schoolyard bullies. An excellent point! I could only take so much bullying before I reacted with vengeance built up from the past. I may have gone overboard again, as I always do.
I did try to explain further, in response to your posted interest. It was hardly about you, Sis, but more about the notion that you posted as a premise that I am somehow less civilised than those "enlightened multitudes" who live in a socialist country, rather than in a country designed around capitalism.
The time in my country's history when our set of judges ignored the issue of slavery, despite the fact that it was already illegal by the constitution, even allowed slavery as a general rule was mostly left over crimes against humanity (one among many that had to be addressed, one at a time, in Congress. Realise from the outset of this country that our original constitution mainly made it legal for us, in our own system of government, to disregard British rule and set up a system that we could amend as the time for amends became necessary) from British rule (something your own country's history knows quite a bit about, I suspect) that took us half a century to undo completely.
I really hate to think of the various global populations that were reduced by half or more while they brought all their fury, in the name of freedom, against a king who thought he owned them all as subjects of his own whims.
The sad reality that it took more than half a century to correct (BY AN ACT OF CONGRESS, ONCE AND FOR ALL TIME!!) the last of the leftover British notions of slavery, is indeed embarrassing to me and the same with most educated Americans. You can not embarrass us more by restating this horror, for the record, than we did ourselves in the ensuing century.
I simply do not want another fight about this kind of shit (No one can change the way I feel about who I am and I doubt that I can alter another's preconceived notions, so there will be only losers who pursue this discussion), so I will allow you the last word, if you wish.
