To night I see another young person camped by McDonald's Resturant with no home to go to

[Stargazer99]

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]

1. my late mom would say ,, welcome to the meaist place on earth.

[usonian]

2. America is one tough town.

Latka Gravas, on "Taxi"

[Gaugamela]

3. Elon needs more money.

[Initech]

12. So do the corporations who make $100 billion in profit a quarter.

And don't pay taxes on it. America is $39 trillion in debt because of this bullshit. Fuck Wall Street forever.

[moniss]

4. One of the toughest times in my life was a

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]

5. Hard times in the land of plenty

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]

6. Yes indeed but do remember that the wealthy

created and control this media environment and the indoctrination in order to get what they want.

[DFW]

8. Agreed, but the masses are not forced at gunpoint to eat it up

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 won’t 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]

9. Yes the effect of propaganda is to make one believe

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]

7. Decent wealthy people

are outnumbered by people of lesser means who vote for policies that benefit fewer evil wealthy people.

[Stargazer99]

10. There some decent wealthy but the self centered are more in number

[Initech]

11. It's fucking insane that the billionaires are stealing all of our money.

And the brainwashed idiots of this country vote time and time again to give them more. The billionaires need to be kicked to the curb and so do their Wall Street profit margins.

[Torchlight]

13. We place willful obstacles in front of the people who need help the most

And pretend to ourselves "that's just the way life is. They should have done X. No fault of mine clearly; I have a warm dinner waiting at home."