by Vicki Phipps

Created on: October 07, 2009

I find it's wise to quote Sheryl Crow whenever the subject of need comes up, at least if you live among a bunch of republicans. Since that's true for me, I'll quote what any rich pop-rock star and/or republican would say to advise those of us who remain needy in the USA:

"It's not about what you want but about wanting what you've got."

That's easy for her to say, but what do I know? I'm not a republican, nor am I Sheryl Crow. All I know is this: What wise guys like them resist will persist. More often than not, want and need produce the same feeling. It's a sense of lacking that pathetically leads to asking for what you want and/or need. In fact, depending on the degree of need, you might even want to pray every single day or beg and plead a bunch of greedy republicans to provide what you want and/or need, only to be dismissed as insignificant. Self righteously, they say that need and lazy mean the same thing when it comes to one nation under their guru God, Rush Limbaugh and/or Glen Beck. Even so, they don't know anything about need, I'll bet.

In fact, to the majority of republicans and/or the rich who try to advise all those unsung Americans, they'll rant and rave that all those in need are just lazy. In fact, that would be me, a lazy and needy disabled, legally blind former school teacher living on a disability income, so please be patient with me as I try to explain what a bunch of republican's and/or the high and mighty rich mean when they say that the rest of us don't need as much as we claim. What they mean when they scream, "Get a grip and get over it," is the fact that it's not wise to even try to take away their tax break. Okay? Whatever they say should be what the minority agrees to believe, just so all those rich republican's can go on about their merry business.

Still, the fact remains that there's always a source of the force which creates need, like food, something to drink, a home to call your own and/or transportation to work so you can earn your pay when at the same time you're too legally blind to drive or legally disabled to earn the cash it takes to please all those rich republican's who advise you to stop being so lazy. Besides, it seems to me the source of that force is greed and it comes from the very ones who try to provide wise advice to those in need. God forbid the government step in and assist us now and then! "That would create a socialistic USA," they say. Even so and although I don't know anything, it seems to me that we

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