Thursday, February 26, 2009
Tent Cities Springing Up In The USA
The Oprah Show that aired on Feb. 25th, was the most heartwrenching program I've seen in a very long while. How can it be that in a country with so much wealth, blue-collar citizens are living in tents because with the horrific downturn in the economy they've lost their homes? How can the fortunate wealthy let this happen in their own country? Where is the humanity in society when few have much and most have nothing? These people are unfortunate victims of circumstance. They are not people who choose not to work, or pay their bills. How can the millionaires and billionaires sleep at night in their big. comfy beds, while decent fellow citizens are sleeping on the ground in a tent, unable to find a job to make their lives better? Shame on the wealthy! In the end, we will all be judged by our wealth - not by how much money we had, but our worth as a human being. It is shocking that in 2009, things like this happen and nothing is done to make this world a better place for everyone!
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I think you are a wonderful person, Anna, but your take on the "wealthy" and their greed is unrealistic. I have been poor all my life / I have never blamed the "wealthy" for that / Is there greed among wealthy people? / Of course / But from someone who has been on the other end of the spectrum and still am, my social security check is a joke, I can tell you that many down here among the poor do not have the wherewithal to better themselves / I have been there / I have slept in missions and Salvation Army hostels across this nation, Anna, and I know the mindset of the majority of this ones I came into contact with / that mindset is to stand with their hands out expecting somebody too put money in it / How many billions of dollars have been spent on the "poor," and there has not bee much improvement at all, only a call for more, more, more / That show you saw was nothing more than what I have been seeing for decades about the poor / If the "wealthy" were to divest ALL of their savings and give it to the poor do not think for one minute that the poor would not be still complaining and bitching about how rotten society has treated them, because Anna, it is never enough / Look at the "War on "Poverty" / What has it done except make ghettos out of most major cities / Until a person has pride in themselves they will forever and always be the "victim" and look for others to help them through life . . .
There will always be this 'class conflict' between the rich & the poor. There's much to be said for both sides.
These are not welfare recipients--they are the WORKING poor. This distinction must be made. People with homes and mortgages who have had to walk away from them because of no other recourse. Jerry's disgust should be at the bank's money-mongers and fat-cats of this country that out of greed instituted "creative financing" and caught thousands in their nets. The middle-class in this country is dwindling at a rapid rate. We're becoming an aristocracy--the very entity that was the reason for this country being formed in the first place!
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