God Bless America

I'm not saying this because you will listen.

I'm saying this because no one else has.

I'm "the poor". My mom is "the poor". It brings tears to my eyes that no one fights for my mother. No one who even knows her thinks of her before they bash "the poor". This is my mother:

I wake up at 12am 7 days a week to do a paper route and then get home at about 5 or 6am. Sleep until about 10 until I go clean houses for anyone who will let me.

I'm the one who drives you to seminary, and picks you up and drives you to school.

I'm the one you called at 7am to come pick you up from your friends house, and I did, even though you were just a friend of my daughters and she was off at college.

I'm the one who does anything anyone asks of her.

I'm the one you call "lazy".

I'm the one you say has been "abusing" the things given me.

I've worked hard not to need welfare, but after my husband died I needed a little assistance.

I'm the one whose daughter, without the government, couldn't attend college, wouldn't have glasses, couldn't have a rescue inhaler for her asthma, would've lived in a house where the roof caved in, you could stick a pencil through the wall, and the outside was made of asbestos.

She is someone who has the purest heart, and the best intentions. She the kind of woman that if she had a million dollars, she'd gladly hand it to you if you needed it.

I'm fighting for my mom. I'm going to fight for those like my mom. Who don't deserve to be harassed because a new government health care bill was passed. My mom did nothing to deserve that. She's gone almost her whole life without good insurance. I for one wish that I had a million dollars, so I could give it to my mom. Maybe someday I can make it up to her. Maybe someday I can take her away from being "the poor" so that people who don't like taxes won't blame her for their problems. I'm tired of the only stories being told are abuse stories because if the poor are abusing their gifts then they don't deserve them, and if they don't deserve them, then I shouldn't have to pay. Be honest. Aren't you really only looking for a reason to say "I shouldn't have to pay."

Please don't send me anything telling me why government health care is evil. Why Obama is evil. Because out of everyone I hear, he isn't the one who sounds evil. I've received email upon email about how the poor abuse welfare. None of them even thought twice about who they sent it to. My mom is too kind to be upset. Someday... maybe I'll learn from her.

I don't agree with Obama, and I don't disagree with Obama.

I'm not a Republican.

I'm not a Democrat.

I'm a person.

God Bless my Mom.

God Bless America. I know we don't deserve it, but some of us still have a little faith. We need you. Please... bless us.