Sunday, December 10, 2017

Thoughts on a snowy day

Someone posted on my FB page "There are over 350,000 churches in America so why are there 200,000 homeless people sleeping on the street?"

It gave me pause for thought.  We are a sad divided nation. There is so much injustice here it is hard to contemplate. The worst part of it seems to me to be the fact that so many in this wealthy nation simply do not care. There is a social milieu that says in Ayn Randian cold fashion sink or swim on your own; live or die on your own and that it is not the duty of a nation to help those who cannot help themselves. It changed for awhile during the Depression when Franklin Roosevelt altered the social contract saying that a nation has the responsibility to care for its people.

We still fight over this today as the pendulum now has swung the furthest it can go to the racist rancid right. No one here should be sleeping in the street; no one should be homeless without food without a job without healthcare and without hope. We must decide who we are as a nation and can we come to any agreement as to what use our riches should be put. Our greatest expenditure is not, contrary to what Republicans say, the social safety nets or so called "entitlements" -- which are not really entitlements since we paid for them -- our greatest expenditure is the military and since post WWII all the futile unnecessary wars this nation has fought and how many lives lost that should not have been is staggering.

We have wasted trillions that could have fed the poor, clothed the naked, built housing for the homeless and educated the young. I have chosen my political slant to believe we should care as a nation for those who in this life did not catch a break; who were born into this life unlucky by fate. As Harper Lee of to "Kill a Mockingbird" fame said  “You never really know a man until you understand things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it." Food for thought on a snowy New England day.

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