Crime is on the increase. Cars get broken into. Homes do too. Meanwhile the Sheriff is talking about cutting the police force. The Power and Light Company contracts its services to subcontractors who also out contract their services to people who do not appear to know what they are doing. An out street light can remain out for longer than a month, even after reporting it to the power company and should you call again to remind them that they have not yet serviced the street light, they make a new ticket and the wait for them to come repair the light starts all over again.
So, when politicians and pundits say that the economy is improving, that there is a recovery from the recession. I say, show me where. It certainly is not in this neighborhood.
I also ask, will this neighborhood ever again become what it once was? Will the slum lord ever stop buying foreclosed and/or abandoned houses? Will he stop moving in rift raft into this neighborhood?
Will there be a politician honest enough to say that taxes are a need and that a good steward collects taxes for the benefit of all.
Pundits who claim to be for the American way are not often for the American way and while they shout and yell that this or that is not the American way, they also say, almost subliminally, that "something has to be done about social security. Maybe not in the short term, but yes in the long term something has to be done." (In case you didn't hear him that was Chris Matthews not all that long ago talking to one of his guests about one of the current politicians running for office who believes in saving social security). I do believe in Social Security and I believe in Medicare, and I believe in the taxes needed to maintain and support them.
So Yes. America is now the land of The Haves and The Have Nots. Be Blessed if you currently fall in the land of The Haves. Don't be surprised if at any time you find yourself in the land of The Have Nots. Remember Boethius. I also remember Lucy Hady and my first training as a social worker for the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services back in the 1985. She made it a point to drive in the point, "the people you are servicing today could be you tomorrow."
Do I believe in the promises of any politician who says they will give me this, or that, or the other? Hardly.
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