Re: Rogers gets it right

Andy, those are all very good suggestions — suggestions that I imagine Mr. Edwards would agree were good ones.

But here's the point:

''Nobody who works full-time should have to raise children in poverty or in fear that one health emergency or pink slip will drive them over the cliff," said Edwards.

He's talking about working folks, who — even after working 40 hours a week — can't make ends meet, or are literally living from paycheck to paycheck. It's easy for those of us sitting on the sidelines to comment on how others should behave when our parents never worried about what or how we would be fed, if we could go to the doctor when we were sick, etc., etc., etc.

In the U.S. — the wealthiest country in the world where a surprising amount of folks make around a thousand dollars a day — it's pretty sad that others that want to work and do work still can't afford to sufficiently provide for their families on the paltry wages they are paid. Maybe some of the working poor 'brought the situation on themselves' — a sentiment I often hear phrased in a variety of different ways — but that doesn't mean their children did.

I often wish that all of those who can so easily empathize with the unborn would be equally empathetic of the born who are threatened by an unsympathetic world every day of their lives.