why should it matter what kind of house she has, or what assets she might have? Is there some threshold above which she is ‘deserving’ and below which she is ‘undeserving’? If so, what is it?
the point it that she obviously cannot afford to pay her property taxes and therefore has been designated - by the government - as a serf directed to toil for the government at whatever said government deems appropriate for her - whether she likes it or not - or face the loss of her long-time residence.
if this isn’t outrageous, then what is?
The original article that started this whole "pull at your heart strings story" had a quote from her where it said that she loved the idea of getting to work again.
No-brainer: The spectacle of "conservatives" defending involuntary servitude, "work until you drop, and then lose your house" treatment of "the greatest generation."
We have lost our souls.
About 30 or 40 years ago, I read a story in National Geographic. It was about some "culture" in some jungle somewhere, which dealt with its "elderly problem" in a most efficient manner. When someone got too old and weak to provide for himself, he was carried out into the jungle -- by his children -- and left to die.
During the time they were putting the story together, they encountered a strapping young man carrying his father out into the jungle, to abandon him to die.
They had photographs of them -- the old man was carried on his son's back, riding out to his death. The reporter and photographer were aghast, and tried reasoning with him. They begged him not to take his father out to die. They plead with him, they said look, he's your father, he raised you, he cared for you, he provided for you. You can't just haul him out and dump in in the woods to die!
Eventually, they prevailed! The guy turned around, and started carrying his father back to the village.
But then, he ran into the other villagers, who laughed at him, ridiculed him, mocked and insulted him, and he could not take it any longer, so he turned right back around again, carried the old man out to the jungle, and dropped him off to die.
Looks like "modern" civilization is returning to its roots.
For this The Founders fought and died, and sacrified their lives and fortunes?