Big Oil Bullies

When I see Big Oil executives testifying to the need for $4 billion in tax dollars at the same time that the WIC (Women, Infant, and Children) program is cut it reminds me of bullies cornering a child in the playground and taking his or her lunch.

They do it not because they need or even want the lunch but because,on some level, they feel as though their bigness – their superiority, makes them entitled to it and taking it will establish the other’s place in the world.

A mom and her newborn, with less them $1,000 a month to live on holds a very low place in our society. Her reality of the US is more like living in the 3rd world than we would like to admit. Katrina showed us that.

But this is life – new life – precious life – perhaps the next Rev. Martin Luther King or Mother Theresa. I don’t want the bullies to have their way. I’m big. I can stand up to the bullies.

Yesterday I called Massachusetts Senator Berry and asked him to cosponsor an amendment that will put $2 million into the state budget to keep 8,000 new moms and their babies on WIC. I hope it will make a difference. My experience with these kind of things is that it will.

And I get to know that the bullies can’t stop me. They just make me more determined. I know my place.

Posted by Sue Kirby on 05/21/11  •  Comments 0   •