Michelle Obama serving food at a Washington Soup Kitchen

Over in the US there’s been an outcry regarding a photo Michelle Obama’s serving mushroom risotto at a Washington soup kitchen to man in the queue who’s photographing Mrs Obama with his mobile phone. People want to know how can a man who’s homeless and can’t afford to buy food has a mobile phone.

I think it’s time we made the poor do their fair share and stop trying to soak the rich. Before we give the poor one cent more, they should be forced to prove that they have really hit rock bottom by selling everything they have, including their cell phones, flat-screen TVs, fancy clothes, cars and furniture. I know that if I became poor, the first thing I would do after putting the cat to sleep and pawning Mrs. Swift’s wedding ring would be to sell my cell phone at the very least. And I certainly wouldn’t expect to eat mushroom risotto. If we stopped making it so enjoyable to be poor, maybe we would have fewer lazy, greedy people who are just dying to live in poverty and leech off of the rest of us. Indeed, the reason for our economic decline may be that so many people want the benefits of being poor that they are dragging the economy down with them. We need to stop this rush to be poor before it is too late. So the First Lady should stop visiting soup kitchens and serving them gourmet food, which just encourages them. Only by making poverty less enticing can we hope to save our economy. Jon Swift.

Jon Swift’s parody’s brutally close to the truth of many right-wingers thinking – right-wingers and thinking – isn’t that an oxymoron?

Hat Tip: donpaskini.