I can't go anywhere here in Sacramento without seeing the homeless and their struggle to exist in our concrete city. We have a problem here and undoubtedly every where else in our nation. Nowhere in America can anyone working a minimum wage job stay out of poverty let alone afford the expenses associated with having some kind of domicile. Surely those who can are living in cramped spaces or are lucky enough to be able to afford a bedroom in someones home. There is little to no hope of having a reliable transportation option unless the county or city bus is close enough to help with that. As to having children it is absurd to expect a minimum wage worker to be able to raise a child on any kind of equal term with those who have plenty.
When I was a child I remember the constant embarrassment and disadvantage I experienced when in school with those who had every day lunches and school supplies I didn't have. My clothes were a lot of hand me downs with shoes to big to wear without many layers of holey socks. Our nation needs to get a grasp on what we continually do to the psyche of our nations children and quit making them the failures we are all responsible for. It is all basic here. When voting for republicans you are voting to keep our nation in a desperate poverty riddled situation. The survival of the fittest isn't humane nor is it honorable to those who are always fighting to get to even. I hate that our nation is so crippled in our souls that we cannot work to make life better for our children.
My heart goes out to those who are so desperate to exist in this world that they stoop to practices in the dark that they would never compromise to in the light of day. We are doing this to ourselves because we cannot get past the idea that we are either better than others or that we don't care. Either way our humanity is not in existence. I only know one way to solve our nations problems and that is to take them on as they are. No whitewashing of the truth, just face the facts and plan accordingly with a solution aimed at minimizing or ending the hardships we place on our most vulnerable. I am ashamed of us Americans in that we cannot seem to understand that greed is a bad thing!
When I was a child I remember the constant embarrassment and disadvantage I experienced when in school with those who had every day lunches and school supplies I didn't have. My clothes were a lot of hand me downs with shoes to big to wear without many layers of holey socks. Our nation needs to get a grasp on what we continually do to the psyche of our nations children and quit making them the failures we are all responsible for. It is all basic here. When voting for republicans you are voting to keep our nation in a desperate poverty riddled situation. The survival of the fittest isn't humane nor is it honorable to those who are always fighting to get to even. I hate that our nation is so crippled in our souls that we cannot work to make life better for our children.
My heart goes out to those who are so desperate to exist in this world that they stoop to practices in the dark that they would never compromise to in the light of day. We are doing this to ourselves because we cannot get past the idea that we are either better than others or that we don't care. Either way our humanity is not in existence. I only know one way to solve our nations problems and that is to take them on as they are. No whitewashing of the truth, just face the facts and plan accordingly with a solution aimed at minimizing or ending the hardships we place on our most vulnerable. I am ashamed of us Americans in that we cannot seem to understand that greed is a bad thing!
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