Mattie notes

Odd today, as for most of it, my blood sugar has been high.  Not sure why...stress, lack of sleep, something.  Just unpleasant and troublesome, as I have to take enough insulin to cover it... and I take more than I usually do in a day.  Let's hope this is just a one-day thing...

I tried not to exacerbate this (I had it just right!) by going to Our Lady of Mount Carmel for their Italian/parish festival.  It was quite nice; I parked on 65th before Detroit -- a bit of a hike but not too bad -- and I had a decent meal -- pasta and a sausage sandwich, $27 including pop.  As I told one friend, as a member of an ethnic urban parish, it behooves me to attend.  They had the church open for Eucharistic Adoration -- first time I ever recalled them doing so -- and I went inside for some prayer and meandering.  It is a pretty church; not St. Stan's pretty, of course (much smaller), and I am glad they did so... people need to see what they are missing out in the burbs...

Single Moms Will Bear the Brunt of the Republicans’ Budget Cuts | The New Republic
I guess I say yes, but... at the end of the day, it's not my responsibility to pay for you and your kid because you were not responsible enough to get pregnant without caring for a child.  Nor are we doing the financially moral thing by subsidizing generations of this poverty, so at some point, you have to say that this is making us worse by perpetrating this across generations.

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This was pretty funny, and the fact that was written in a way that says it was not a parody...

‘We’re the frontline of defense’: Food banks grapple with megabill’s impact - POLITICO
Maybe because I work with them...well, let's just say that if they are the first line of defense, we will soon be at the last line of defense.  To be sure, part of the problem is that we let people go too long on the dole, and local and county governments (especially around here) are not called to the carpet enough for keeping people in poverty to get votes, but at the end of the day... if you have to rely on food banks to get food, in some ways, the fault is on you...