With all this talk between Obama and McCain about the middle class of America, Main Street and other such euphamisms for those doing decently well in America, there’s almost no talk about the working and non-working poor.
It’s absolutely baffling that in the wealthiest country in the world:
33 million Americans continue to live in households that did not have an adequate supply of food. Nearly one-third of these households contain adults or children who went hungry at some point in 2000.
In the face of our homegrown poverty we spend about $700 billion on the department of defense and another $250 billion per year on interest on our national debt.
There’s also no talk about some of our country’s imminent resource and infrastructure crisises… and not just oil… water, sewage, highway, rail, dams, forests (here in CO we’re losing millions of acres of forest to the Japanese pine beetle… a problem which might have been solved by a few more forestry dollars).
And still, neither candidate will even begin to mention that it’s not main street, or wall street that needs help, it’s Martin Luther King Blvd that needs help.
It’s not because they’re opposed to handouts either, they just gave Wall Street a $700 billion blank check to fix their mistakes (both McCain and Obama voted yes to the porky bailout).
Hmm… grace for the rich but the heavy hand of “you should have tried harder” for the poor? Not on my watch.
Luckily there is a candidate who does see these problems and is willing to try and fix them if we give him a shot.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q18ycxQCbRg[/youtube]
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