DEAR ALEXANDRA PELOSI,

Wiki says you are an Emmy-nominated documentarian and journalist whose Mama has an important job and whose Daddy is really rich.

The latest news kerfuffle is over your Bill Maher-commissioned videos that document the poor both in Mississippi and Manhattan.  Both clips seem like interviews sewn together rather than a documentary.  Were you framing a picture of prejudice?  Entitlement mentality?  The welfare state?  Scary rednecks who think the South will rise again?  Perhaps the intent was to examine all the above.

As I watched, the videos seem to ridicule the extreme stereotypes of rural/urban people.  I didn't like it that the panel laughed at the toothless man and laughed at the house he lived in and laughed when someone cracked they were from TinyTown, USA.  I was equally embarrassed for the way the men on the street in NYC shamed themselves.

Ms. Pelosi, your stated premise about going to Mississippi and just "happening" to find those "random" examples just stretches my incredulity.  And of course, I didn't miss your question "how come the poorest state is the most conservative state?"  Can't be too smart if you're conservative, right?

Perhaps there are people from all walks of life that could be entertaining if making sport of them was kosher.  Liberals purport to be compassionate toward the poor, but the clips didn't come across as being potential for the compassion file.

As I thought about those hapless people, I realized that both locations reveal a permanent underclass that persist because of decades of government payments that have been personally corrosive.  Richie Rich AND the poor both reason..."why work when money is laying on the ground?".   God designed work for us and without it, there is a disintegration of spirit and worth and accomplishment.

While government will always have an obligation to come underneath a certain percentage of people who are unable to care for themselves, today's entitlement system is large, getting larger, and encouraged to grow larger.  But those people are not "helped" by government money, Ms. Pelosi.  They are imprisoned.

MISSISSIPPI VIDEO
MANHATTAN VIDEO
Caution: offensive language.