Sometimes I'd like to participate in discussions but find myself so emotionally and intellectually infuriated that I have to decline.
I tend to think the motto of America these days should be:
I've got mine, fuck you!
It's disgraceful and shockingly ignorant as the cost of incarcerating and branding these people for life far exceeds the cost of sheltering, clothing, feeding, nursing, and finding and/or teaching these people jobs. All those things seem expensive until you realize that extreme poverty is not a lifetime condition and these people can be assisted into becoming independent tax payers instead of lifetime tax consumers. And that is, rather disgustingly, the only argument that seems to hit home with many people who otherwise like to think of themselves as charitable.
Sometimes I wish my ancestors had never set foot in this country.