Do you believe that everyone deserves food and housing, regardless of ability to work?

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43. Well, we just paid thieving bank$ter/donors hundreds of billions of dollars to stick in their pocket

while letting them foreclose on 4 million families, while we watched 10 million people move down into poverty and another 30-50 million move nearer. We cut tuition assistance and encouraged students to take on more than a trillion dollars in debt. We LOST pallets of money in Iraq. We've essentially stopped hiring folks at the Federal level, which is about the only place a black person can depend on for being color-blind in their hiring. We pay corporations trillions in subsidies for food, drugs, medications, all at prices far inflated from the rest of the worlds, while we get less value for it. We...

The list could go on. We could easily afford it.

The real question is what we lose by treating our neighbors like this for the profit of a few, and what that will do to any future this country might have.

Whether one wants to admit it or not, an injury to one is an injury to all. We make sure our neighbor is ok, because that's where the opportunities come from for you and your family, that's where the strength and security of our country comes from. So we have a self-serving duty to make sure everyone is lifted, not just the friends of the party currently in power.

-> If we fail in our responsibility in the most powerful and richest country in the world to provide opportunity to overcome the negative effects of our unrestrained capitalism, we will soon NOT be living in the most powerful and richest country in the world. <-

Interesting: The more we don't move, the more we don't act, the more likely it is to change around us.