EVERYDAY, when i talk to my mom on the phone, she tells me about three cute kittens and their mother who come daily briefly playfully trapsing through her yard. We talk about them often, speculating on whether they have a home, and what their future might be. Mother has some ideas about where they live and how cute they are, but none about their future.
So i suggested to her that, considering how much time she and i spend talking about them on the phone, maybe it would be worth her time to make one quick phone call to the local animal shelter, explaining that there is a possibility that these kittens are homeless. Today's humane society animal shelters are compassionate organizations, with good people doing good things, who need and deserve the support of all americans.
If only mom could form a bit more definite idea whether these kittens and momma kittie have a human home....oh well, i trust she will. All over america we the american people, using the great tool we all know and love, known as "big socialistic american government", need to develop, must develop and immediately implement an intelligent policy concerning the thirty to forty million stray cats in the lower forty eight, U.S. of A.
c'mon, people, we can't just ignore this. and it does not have to be terribly expensive, or complicated.
Here's the plan: we maintain and enhance resources for the already excellent system of humane society animal shelters all across our great nation. Maintanance obviously works well under the currrent system, else they wouldn't have been in operation so long. The enhancement part needs a new source, and that new source, dear citizen, could be the AARP.
Uh huh, that's right, the American Associasion of Retired People, aka GOOF (Grand Ole Over Fifty club): this outfit has been nagging me to join for nine years, ever since i turned forty nine. sheesh!
My answer to them? I'm not retired, and won't be for a while, and when I am, I will let you know. Also, i might consider joining your gang if and when, for the very first time ever, i see any slight indication at all that you people want to do anything, anything at all, to help future generations, amything intead what you now do and have always done, which is to gang up on the rest of society and try to extort as much money and as many special treatment benefits form them that you can.
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your conutry. If, after a lifetime of oppoortunity, you have failed to secure for yourself all that you need, without feeling the need to gang up with your peers and extort more, then too damn bad, may the devil take you.
And here's a good place to start, as good as any. The american Humane Society. They need money and volunteers. And dog and cat food. And they need an inespensive system of fixing and vaccinating, independent of the expensive free market veterinary profession; a trained army of low cost cat spaying technicians. The process can't be all that inherently specialized, rarified, expensive.
WE could untertake a national program to round up every stray cat in america, fix it, vaccinate it, and either adopt it out to a good home or let it live as a stray, but a healthier stray, and this national program could be one of many pet projects for the , you guessed it, the reinvented AAARRP, American Association of Assistance Rendering Retired People.
Now c'mon, my fellow geezers! Let's get a move on! Let's git 'er dun!
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