🇺🇸 Permanent givers earn resentment, not gratitude, and Washington is learning it from every ally it funds while Americans carry home two grocery bags for the price of four
Karen Kwiatkowski told an old story. A man passes a beggar on the corner and hands him a dollar Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
On Friday he walks by with nothing, and the beggar shouts after him: where's my dollar?
That, she argues, is how dependency works between nations too, and it's not a moral failing, it's how minds are built: "welfare is a huge destroyer of gratitude"
The conversation applied it from Kyiv to Tel Aviv and every client in between.
Nobody wants to believe they live on another country's checks, so the more they need the giver, the more they quietly resent him, and the check becomes an expectation rather than a gift.
Meanwhile the giver's own kitchen table tells the other half.
She shops at Walmart and now gets two bags for the money that used to fill four.
Beer sales are falling nationally, and it isn't a health kick, people are simply POORER.
Diesel by her count sits near $6.50. And a Pentagon official reportedly described the strikes on Iran with an Israeli phrase, mowing the grass, which is what you call a war that has become a chore with no end date.
Friday came for the man on the corner. The open question is who ends up angrier, the one who stopped receiving, or the one who can no longer afford to give.
@karen4the6th @WeTheBrandon
