How does Gov. Christie sleep at night
John Lennon produced a scathing criticism of band mate Paul McCartney as the Beatles splintered.
“How Do You Sleep” at night challenged McCartney’s musical skills, almost maligning him as a one-hit wonder who penned “Yesterday.”
The Lennon attack could serve as criticism for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and others who champion causes for opioid addiction recovery after the disease showed up in suburban households. Scientists even produced a Naloxone aka Narcan drug injection that has saved thousands from death by overdose, offering them second chances, at least, for recovery.
Amazing how suburbanites, newspapers and other media outlets ridiculed urban Americans trapped by crack and heroin use now display empathy for “their” disease. We make smart drugs that can bring people back from the dead but fail to implement smart technology that can prevent bullets from leaving guns.
United States officials allowed the crack epidemic, including violence connected with drug distribution, to rampage urban America. Meanwhile, rehabilitation opportunities dwindled while leaders sought an incarceration solution.
How does Gov. Christie sleep at night knowing that he stepped forward only when addiction found its way into his circle of friends? Seems like Christie has his finger on the pulse of suburban dwellers, pathetic when people disregard empathy for political points or when they sell out.
In this same conversation about conscience, it’s amazing that some bilingual Latinos have sold out to landlords. Latinos need housing and since many speak Spanish only, Englishspeaking landlords need interpreters. Enter the bilingual person who speaks enough English to represent for landlords.
Impeccable Spanish and salesmanship can talk applicants into renting an apartment packed with roaches, needs a paint job and may include a working heater. (Will get that baby smoking come winter). These middle men and their handlers make my skin crawl. Not much worse than people selling out their own race.
Sure, a point made here regularly involves universal membership in the human race but most understand the aforementioned point. Happens every where and in all walks of life as money matters more than people being offered safe, clean and healthy shelter.
People who lie, misrepresent, cheat and steal likely say sleep is overrated.
L.A. Parker is a Trentonian columnist. Reach him at laparker@trentonian.com.