Seeing more homeless folks - breaks my heart and makes me MAD

[MannyGoldstein]

I live in a pretty nice suburb that borders Boston. Four blocks north of me we have subsidized-rent housing, four blocks south we have at least one billionaire (and a gaggle of manymillionaires).

Over the past few months, I'm seeing more and more homeless folks. People walking down the street, wheeling possessions in a shopping cart or carrying them in bags. People at the edges of store parking lots, perhaps living in the streets nearby. Never saw that before in almost 20 years of living in these parts.

It makes me sad. And it makes me mad.

For 30 years a small number of us have watched in helpless anger as the the 1% purchased our government. The government of the 1% passed decades of laws designed to take from the 99%, for the 1%.

And here we are. So many are so fucked, and the government of the 1% doesn't care a whit - in fact, they want to clamp down on us, to further fuck the weak and the helpless so that the plutocrats can further engorge. It is sick. There is no need for this. How much treasure does a person need, and at what price to humankind?

I am thankful for the good people of Wisconsin, for their efforts to push back the motherfuckers who are trying to grab the last few morsels from working Americans. I am grateful for all the people of Occupy nationwide for getting the conversation going on the 99% vs. the 1%.

In a sense, while this is the darkest time that Americans have known in many decades, we may be seeing a rosy glow on the horizon - at least large numbers of folks are *beginning* to realize there's a huge problem, and that's the first step in displacing the darkness with the warm sunlight of civil society and love for humanity.

Let's hope for success.

Sorry for the rambling.