I remember, as a child, hearing, “Money can’t buy everything.”
It used to be considered common sense to believe that, after all money can’t by life, or love, or health and it shouldn’t be able to buy death.
It seems a lot of people began to doubt these things during the last ten years.
There are now people in this world who appear to believe that if they have enough money the rules don’t apply to them.
It is hard to deny that when the rest of us bend over backwards letting them believe it.
We began handing over just about everything they asked for. After all, they’re rich, that means they really know, right?
Know about what? Fair play? Compassion? Equity? How hard the rest of us work to achieve just a modicum of what the rich take for granted?
We are now beginning to reap the benefits of our actions. Certain drugs are no longer available for everyone. Unemployment is rampant despite all our bailouts. Jails are so crowded that white-collar crime may be merely a token stay in a county jail.
The valley between the haves and the have-nots grows daily, dug deeper by the people who can afford the biggest bulldozers, so I am truly heartened by Ohio’s voters. They really rose to the occasion.
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