Pie in the morning is pastry: HRC 24/100
21 August, 2016 | Index
Dear Hillary Clinton,
Gerard Mclean here, writing to you from Englewood, Ohio near Dayton. There were 100 days from your nomination to election, so I’m writing you 100 letters. This is the twenty-fourth letter. The others can be found in your USPS mailbox or online at 100HRC.com
My daughter — who now lives in Houston — is visiting this week, so we had breakfast at the local Bob Evans this morning. When I say “breakfast,” I mean I eschewed the usual breakfast faire and ordered a slice of coconut cream pie. Pie at night is dessert, but pie in the morning, that’s pastry. You can have pastry for breakfast.
Somewhere in the middle of enjoying my forbidden slice of pie (please don’t tell anyone) I noticed the family behind us, consisting of a young couple and five kids, the oldest probably about eight or so.
What do they do for a living, I wondered, perhaps louder than I should have. My real questions were, of course, what job in the Dayton, Ohio area in 2016 provides enough income to support a family of seven? How much was health care for them? Do they even have health care? And how will they all afford college?
I’m glad to see young people with hope enough in the future of America to have kids. Personally, I dread when mine (31, 25) start having kids — if ever — simply because the costs of raising kids today in this country is untenable. You know this as well.
One thing that would help is UniversalCare, SinglePayer, MedicareForAll. Can we work on that? I know from your commercial that hearing your opponent’s language is harmful to kids, but the lack of medical care for them is deadly.
Regards,
Gerard McLean
cc: Sen. Sherrod Brown
