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This country makes me sick. NO one should be without adequate shelter in the richest country in the world and it is the wealthy that are the cause of this problem. No wonder the world is making a mockery of the US

AllaN01Bear
(27,725 posts)usonian
(21,735 posts)Latka Gravas, on "Taxi"
Gaugamela
(3,059 posts)
moniss
(8,212 posts)homeless stint. If you drive by the restaurants after they close you'll find people going through the dumpsters for what got thrown out. In the land of plenty or so the saying goes. Plenty for a few I guess and nothing for a whole lot of others.
DFW
(59,164 posts)A one hit wonder decades ago
Hard times in the land of plenty
Some people got a lot
Hard times in the land if plenty
Some people have not
Got any
And I reject the simple solution to put this on the backs of the wealthy. It was the mass of Fox-watching middle class and the lower middle class who put Trump back in the Oval Office, not a few rich people in Highland Park, Laguna Beach or Forest Hills.
moniss
(8,212 posts)created and control this media environment and the indoctrination in order to get what they want.
DFW
(59,164 posts)Poor education, religious indoctrination and a lazy willingness to never question the path of least resistance brings the mass misery. If the wealthy try to sell cars with five wheels, they will fail because it is immediately obvious to even the dumbest moron that the thing is nit drivable. If Republican agrarian policies are the eqivalent to the five wheeled car, you would THINK that farmers, those closest to the economics of the business, would never vote Republican. And yet, they did in droves. I blame the local churches before I blame the wealthy. Big Ag is wealthy, but a conglomerate owner only has one vote, just like each of the thirty thousand small famers who voted themselves into bankruptcy.
Kamala Harris told them they would fare much worse under Trump. Their local pastors in their small town churches mostly told them the opposite. They may well be getting Republican bribes to do it. Use the FBI to expose them, not to expel tomato pickers in Florida or strawberry pickers in Alabama.
Just sending Musk, the Mercers, the Kushners and the Murdochs into a defective bathysphere on a one-way tour of the Titanic wont solve the problem, other than providing half a day of Schadenfreude. Removing the Secretaries of Education and HHS and restoring both departments to powerful entities out to work for the public good would be far more effective, and longer-lasting.
moniss
(8,212 posts)and all of your points are valid and the masses of MAGA followers long ago gave up what little open mind they may have ever had. So now as we have seen for the last few decades they will go against their own well being just to satisfy the call of the propaganda. I firmly believe that most of them are a lost cause and can no longer be reached and deprogrammed. Like the Koresh morons or the Jim Jones followers.
BaronChocula
(3,603 posts)are outnumbered by people of lesser means who vote for policies that benefit fewer evil wealthy people.