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  • No sympathy from the jealous

       June 10, 2008

    After torrential rains this weekend, Wisconsin's Lake Delton has disappeared. Resorts in this booming vacation area just north of Wisconsin Dells are devastated, as are several individuals who saw their vacation homes literally float away:

    Don Kubenik, 68, burst into tears Monday after seeing the $500,000, 2,800-square foot home he built in 2003 snapped into pieces. The businessman from suburban Milwaukee said he spent every weekend here.

    "That house had everything you can imagine and now it's all gone," said Kubenik, who was at his home in West Allis when the lake overflowed. "My boat's gone. The pier's gone. Everything is gone."

    How can you not sympathize with someone who goes through that? Well, apparently it's easy if the victims are rich. Just read some of the comments on the article:

    Hard to feel sorry for someone who has lost one of his two homes. Lost his boat and pier. I'm barely holding onto one home with an economy much more severe than any flood

    Or

    3 vacation homes are gone. Nobody injured.

    There are still millions of AIDS orphans in Africa if you want something real to be concerned about.

    Funny how you didn't hear so much about the AIDS orphans in Africa when New Orleans was flooding. Luckily, not every commentator is a jealous asshat. A few people called out these people on their jealousy and lack of compassion:

    Perhaps he had a second home because he worked harder and smarter than you.

    He might even have provided jobs and health care for other families.

    A shame to link your frustration to him.

    If you are hurting financially, find a better job.

    You have that freedom.

    In the meantime, sympathy is more appropriate than envy and bitterness.

    Right on! I firmly believe that the roots of modern Madison liberalism are not based in the Progressive tradition. It's based in jealousy. Madison is filled with BAs and PhDs who falsely believe that the world owes them a high paying job simply due to their college diploma. They're jealous of the success of others and rather than accepting that other people may work harder, or choose better fields to specialize in, or made sacrifices along the way, they simply bitch about the crimes of the wealthy and try to take their money to fund the lifestyle they're not willing to work for on their own.


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