Who's to Blame?
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Among the record setting number of e-mails I received on Monday's Common Sense, came this note from Brian Escapo:
"It's easy for you to sit high and mighty, likely having never known a single day of suffering yourself, yet advising your viewers to suffer. Walk a mile in my shoes, Cavuto, and deal with my illnesses. I'd teach you a thing or two about suffering."
Brian, suffice it to say, I don't need your lectures. You suffer — many suffer — but don't play the victim card with me.
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I ran into a woman Monday doing just that. Riddled with multiple sclerosis, she is a shell of the woman she once was — and she's angry, even bitter. She blames her children for not caring more, her husband for not empathizing more and the government for not doing more.
I was as blunt with her as I'm about to be with you, Brian: Shut up.
Her kids didn't give her M.S. Her husband didn't wish her M.S. And her government didn't plot to afflict her with M.S.
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She got it. It stinks. It happens. Move on.
How wonderful would it be if we could wave a wand and make an illness disappear?
We can't. Our kids can't. Our spouses can't. And our government can't.
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We spend an inordinate amount of time in this country playing the victims in this country, or "to" the victims in this country. We seek retribution for our rage and a fair share for our pain. We feel we are owed. But I feel most of us are not.
Things happen to some of us that have nothing to do with any of us. So we look to the government, when sometimes I think we'd be wiser looking somewhere else: in the mirror.
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