Eisenhower would never fit in the GOP

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. "

I ran in to this quote today and was first thinking it came from Desmond Tutu or some other non-violence philanthropist before I learned it came from Dwight D. Eisenhower (R), a five-star Army general and the 34th president of the U.S from 1953-1961.

Just thinking... the GOP has gone so far right as I said in yesterday's blog. You would never in a million years hear a quote like that from today's republicans.

Yesterday I had a discussion with someone about bringing extra snacks with the kids to school to the kids that don't bring any and that person said that it was not our responsibility but the parents of that child.
I agreed, but what if the kid don't have good caring parents?

Now that person might not be one of the people out there with pro-life bumper stickers on her car, I don't know, but I know the person is a "value voter".

And what seemed so absolute, so fundamental, to be pro-life, all of a sudden disappeared as soon as that fertilized egg became a real baby, or later a child. A woman that becomes pregnant and not want a baby, or don't feel capable of taking care of a child, is called a murderer for not wanting to go forward with the pregnancy.

Don't take me wrong, I hate abortions, and want to fight to reduce the numbers to the absolute minimum, but maybe one of those women is the mom of the kid that never bring a warm coat to school, that never have money for popcorn on Fridays, that don't bring snacks to school.
And now the responsibility isn't that person's or mine, but the mom's?

Most pro-life people tend to be republican, most tend to support the war (seem impossible to be pro-life and pro-war at the same time, but somehow they make it work), some tend to be NRA members (do pro-life people think it's OK to blow the head off of someone steeling their car?), and most tend to go to church. And even though they sit in the pew every Sunday some seem to have become totally immune to the Sermon on the Mount

What I'm trying to teach my kids by letting them bring extra snacks to school and give out to their friends if they forgot to bring, or just didn't have any, is that it's a good feeling to give, it is the right thing to do, and guess what? It doesn't involve any religious doctrines.