Oct 25 2006
While there is some slight optimism concerning the upcoming election…
There’s this: War on poverty slips from election agenda [again].
I think it’ll be a real shame if in their eagerness to gain some majorities Democrats jettison some of the major issues that have been hanging like a cloud for the past couple of years over the country. It would be a super shame if they also forget the same lesson Republicans did and blithely go on their merry way on their planks and constituents. Government should be about serving the people, and, hard to believe, even those who may not have voted for you. There is such unmet need and inequity that you could argue for the benefits to the businessmen who seem to truly govern in words of economics that they would understand. There’s the human and moral imperative. And then there’s the personal: would you want your momma (even if she’s nuts) to be treated like the poorest of the poor are treated here? With just about every rule and statute taking those few bits that mean so much to her, but proportionally so little to the everyday life of a person who has more than they need to live?
–endrant–
