I'm certain I'm not the first to notice this, but it became clear to me this weekend that our current federal government's ecomonic policies resemble an Easter egg hunt. Let me describe the event that happened at the park yesterday, and then I'll let him who reads this understand the obvious for himself.
At 10:30 am, we got there just in time to witness a man with a megaphone announce to hundreds of families, "We have over 5000 eggs, so every kid should be able to find plenty. PLEASE encourage the older kids to pass up the eggs in front and go to the back of the park. GO!"
You can imagine what happened after that. In about 2 minutes, all 5000 eggs had been taken by the school-agers who had stuffed their makeshift "baskets" tight. The toddlers had no idea why they were even there. So some of the organizers quickly threw candy and toys on the ground in front of the faces of the toddlers to make up for what had just happened. Minutes later a sweet little girl with a contractor bag full of eggs came up to my 2 year old saying, "You didn't get any? Here you can have some of mine." She filled D's basket with eggs, and just as I was commenting about how sweet that girl was, I realized this was happening all around us. Baskets were being filled not by the toddlers' own hands, but by the generous hands of an older child. I'm sure some of the school-aged children were passing out what parents were calling "Donor Eggs" out of compassion, but most I'm convinced were doing it out of guilt. Either way, my son, and hundreds of others his age, did not experience an Easter egg hunt that morning.
We're going to try a private egg hunt today and see if it goes better than the government sponsored one.
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