How backward can we be?

I'm sure everyone is aware of Obama's Roanoke Doctrine -- if you own a small business, you didn't make it happen; someone else did. Anyone who owns a small business or works closely with someone who does knows what a bunch of bologna that is. People who make small businesses work put in countless hours, risk most of their cash, and pour their hearts and souls into it. "Someone else" does NOT build the business.

Then we have the Toledo Doctrine. A little 4-year-old child survived cancer, and she was granted a gift from the Make-a-Wish Foundation. She chose (or her mother did) to go to Disneyland. The mother has never been married to the child's father. At any rate, Make-a-Wish requires the signatures of both parents on the paperwork. The father has refused to sign. His stated reason is that some child who is terminally ill should be the beneficiary of the trip. I find that story quite fishy -- I suspect his real reason may be that he doesn't want the mother to go on the trip. 

At any rate, the mother and the grandmother decided to collect donations so they could go to Disneyland anyway. You notice, they did not decide to work some extra jobs or to save the money. Yet they say they are collecting the donations so they can "pay for the trip on their own." And I suspect Obama would pat them on the back and congratulate them for it. But they aren't paying for the trip -- someone else is! How backward our thinking has become!

"Dad denies 4-year-old cancer survivor trip to Disney." The Dallas Morning News; July 20, 2012; p. 9A.