What Are We To Think?
The most prosperous country in the world and we can't see past $5.15 as a wage.
What are we to think, in a nation that cannot find enough simple concern for the working poor to lift their minimum wage to poverty levels, yet
Routinely lies about the costs of war
Cannot account for 25% of the annual half-trillion spent on defense
Lines the pockets of its legislators by common graft
Gives additional billions to the already-rich in tax breaks
This is a country that claims the Judeo-Christian ethic. A land where 62% are regular churchgoers, people who tythe and generate charitable funds through bake-sales, read their bibles and believe in the Ten Commandments.
I no longer know what it means to make the claim of a faith-based administration and by consistent government actions, be so uncharitable with the have-nots and left-behinds of our neighborhood.
Neighborhood. It’s a good word, American as baseball.
Neighborhood, the area of our neighbors, an idea more than a confinement of streets, a reachin…