Let Them Eat Cake

This might be a radical idea, but I believe, quite firmly, that every single person on the face of this planet deserves to eat. 

If your parents do drugs, you deserve to eat.

If you do drugs, you deserve to eat.

If you sell drugs, you deserve to eat.

If you live on the street, you deserve to eat.

If you're a college student, you deserve to eat.

If you're a criminal, you deserve to eat.

If you're an illegal immigrant, you deserve to eat.

If you don't believe in God, you deserve to eat.

If you voted for Bush, you deserve to eat.

If you're overweight, you deserve to eat.

If you make bad choices, you deserve to eat.

If you're not very nice, you deserve to eat.

If you're illiterate, you deserve to eat.

If you're stupid, you deserve to eat.

If you drink too much, you deserve to eat.

If you lost your job but you still have a decent car, you deserve to eat.

If you can't afford to buy your own food, you deserve to eat.

If you live on the planet Earth, you deserve to eat.

I think it's really pretty simple. Food is essential to survival. Everyone knows that. What makes some people think it's okay to deny certain people this basic necessity of survival? 

Mandatory drug testing for food assistance is wrong, wrong, makes-me-sick-to-my-stomach WRONG. I can promise you, that whether you know it or like it or not, you know someone (and most likely LOTS of someones) who smokes pot. Probably someone you like, someone you respect, someone you would never ever ever suspect of engaging in illicit drug use. Believe it. I want you to imagine someone like that. Now I want you to imagine that that person loses his job and temporarily needs food assistance so he and his family can eat. Now I want you to envision telling that person, to his face, that he and his children don't deserve to eat. That they should just go off somewhere and starve to death.


Whenever I see someones Facebook status update telling all their friends they just took a poll and YES! they believe in mandatory drug testing for food assistance eligibility, I want to puke. Seriously. We live in a world of abundance. Especially in this country, there is so much food wasted every single day that it is ludicrous to believe some people don't deserve to eat, for any reason whatsoever. There is enough food to feed everyone. Why be stingy?