PROBLEM IS Whatever science may prove or religion teach, medical breakthrough, miraculous cure, unlike more natural beings on Earth, if we don't LEARN to love our children, each solips ego will shun and punish those trusting, innocent, wondering eyes yearning for knowledge of what it means to be alive. Simpler animals give graphic lessons that humans cannot require: the dog pack starving to feed their pups surrounded by Manmade desert; the calico cat burning to save her kittens from the civilized house on fire. But in Darfur the children die first, and our Susan "wept" for her "kidnapped" kids, pleading for their "safe return", slipping her crime on racial grease, while less daring mommies and daddies merely neglect, insult, beat and molest, then falsely accuse and compromise any neighbor who tells the police. After Hillary quoted that famous line: "it takes a village to raise a child" she helped her Bill "grow the economy" damning to city and suburban squeeze every last village ripe for the business of fattening real-estate corporations for multiple election campaign bribes so U.S. jobs can move pay-cut overseas while millions of cheap-labor aliens arrive, crowding to drugs, crime and suicide our youth who cannot afford to be young sensing the game is a fatal disease covered by so much political jive. Then, non-elected President Bush abusing the terrorized majority maneuvered a Congressional push for the cause that bought his priority: service privatization for corporate liberation from environmental and financial regulation obscured by his filial war of retaliation that triggered the present economic crash. Meanwhile, our life-supporting Earth is near failing to adapt, renew and thrive under growing megatons of our trash. Now answer the child who loves you: "Into such madness you gave me birth, like that's what I get for being alive?!"

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