There are REAL issues in this nation affecting REAL people with REAL consequences. We live in a nation where poverty is among all of us, homelessness rampant, people suffering from mental illness left to struggle on the street, public schools are almost as in as much dire shape as infrastructure, women cannot find quality let alone adequate health care, our environment is suffering from the squander and greed of people living in Ivory Towers the elderly are left to become nothing more than squatters, and a distrust by neighbor to neighbor touches the edges of anarchy. And yet we hear without a sigh or simmer how many millions of dollars PAC’s have raised, the rumor is with all of the presidential candidates combined PAC’s perhaps the total number of buying a president has reached a BILLION dollars.
The building in which I live in West Hollywood has an alley way an apparently it now has become home to a gentleman who IS homeless. The alley way is on a side of building I usually pas by quickly so anything besides a few feet into the alley is difficult to see. Our bedroom however is located on the alley side of the building. Today, bright an early I heard shouting, this is unusual as our building’s tenants are quiet people. At first I was about to get all hissy with Joe thinking for some reason he had the television on but then realized he had taken our dog for a walk. On the alley side of our building there was a man yelling at someone in a booming voice repeating at least TEN times in a row, “there are 1000’s and 1000’s and 1000’s etc of people like me, what are we supposed to do?” I heard a quiet voice muffled and then this gentleman’s voice booming again,”all I want is a place to sleep and something to eat”, and then he began his tirade about the 1000’s of people who he added this time are JUST people”.
I too often wonder how in this nation of ours we do have not 1000’s but maybe millions of people who JUST want a place to sleep, some food to eat, a shower, decent clothes and the ability to be treated as human. Be it our Vets, the elderly whose family has abandoned them, workers whose jobs were sent overseas, or a family of four who continues to earn a wage which by no means is minimum. We had the Super Bowl being told how many millions were spent on just the commercials. We have billionaires able to find the money to buy their next politician, we have corporations reaping benefits of less taxable dollars, we have PAC’s dropping millions of dollars. Yet when it comes to human beings, (even though so many Americans pretend this a IS a Christian nation), money is scare, and to assist anyone in need we are told is making them lazy, unmotivated, a drag on society. There are REAL issues in this nation of life and death, suffering and fear. I don’t understand who WE have become as a species, just don’t get it!
