Three children kill by US Drone
Which two of the three would
you choose?

In making our home visits for our St. Vincent De Paul conference we are supposed to limit our vouchers for people in need to two large items, like a used refrigerator, used stove and beds. Limits are due to our lack of funds to serve people. However, often persons are in need of three major items like the lady this morning that needed a refrigerator, stove and a full size bed for two of her children. We could have told her to call us back in six months or just give her all three major items, which we did. A month or so ago I had a similar experience where a woman just go out of homeless shelter, had a house but needed to have a refrigerator, stove and beds to get her three children back. Again I erred on the side of giving her more than we could afford.

Having to choose two of the three, refrigerator to store food, stove to cook food or bed to sleep on is not a choice that should have to be made by a mother with children who is struggling to survive.

This two of the three choices reminds me of common breakfast in restaurants called a 2 X 2 X 2. It usually consists of two eggs, two breakfast sausages and two pancakes. What would we think if we ordered a 2 X 2 X 2 breakfast and the waitress said we needed to pick two of the three? I made my wife breakfast this morning of 2 eggs and 2 sausages (she only ordered one). Tomorrow I said she could cook me a similar breakfast and only give me a choice of two of a 2 X 2 X 2 breakfast.

I know the comparisons of picking two of three are silly. But as 50% of the people in the USA are now poor or ‘near poor’ these kinds of choices are being made on a daily basis by many. Some of us to not need to worry about making a choice of two major items but many do or wish they had such a choice. What kind of world do we live in when our President makes a choice to send a five million dollar killer drone, unmanned plane, to a country that we are not even at war with to kill suspicious enemies who may turn out to be innocent children? What two of the three would you choose?

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