I’m sure you’ve all heard of the tragedy in California, where Ervin Lupoe slaughtered his whole family, including five young children. According to the mainstream media, Mr. Lupoe killed his family because he and his wife had lost their jobs and didn’t feel like they had anywhere else to turn.
The reality of the situation is that the Lupoes were fired from their jobs because they forged supervisor’s signatures on some paperwork, and misrepresented their income to a government agency that provides child care assistance. While I have a certain amount of sympathy for their situation, it’s not something that they had no control over.
But in order to prop up their Presidential Savior, the MSM need you to believe that because of the financial mess Bush put us in (yes, I know…don’t get me started) people are starting to off themselves and their families because they see no other recourse.
Anyone with half a brain knows that this is hogwash designed to engender both ire for Bush and support for Obama. It is nothing but a disgusting ploy, and I don’t know why I am even surprised anymore at the depths they will sink to push their agenda.
There are hundreds of thousands of people in this country who are losing their jobs due to a combination of a downturn in the economy, corporate greed and fiscal government irresponsibility, and yet 99.9% of them are not choosing to off their entire families in a desperate attempt to get out from under a crushing personal debt. In fact, I would venture to guess that even the mass majority of those who are taking the easy way out are not in as bad of shape as the media would lead you to believe…or, if they are, have gotten that way over a number of years and by a number of different avenues…not the least of which is irresponsibility on their own parts.
Don’t misunderstand me, there are people in this country who are desperate and in need of help. I can’t even imagine how you get to a place where you think that your only answer is the needless slaughter of your loved ones, or even just yourself. But to blame the economy or the state of the country for a few lost souls’ final acts is misleading. And it’s disgustingly wrong.
I would love to ask the media to quit using these people to attack the former President and the minority Republicans in Washington DC., but I think I would have more success getting President Obama to admit he’s friends with Willaim Ayers.
I don’t know how they live with themselves.
