What is happening to America?

The plight of our Poor and Homeless — Why are so many of us living in tents along the highways? Why are so many of us being tossed out of our jobs and left to find a tent in homeless “tent villages” along our highways?

Recently, I have begun reading Elizabeth Warren’s new book, “This Fight Is Our Fight” …. “The Battle to Save America’s Middle Class”, (first published in 2017), with a new “Afterward” this year.

I’ve never had a deep conviction that conservative economics is the prudent means to keep America safe and happy. I was raised by a conservative grandmother (she was a Republican all her life), but I didn’t like her “political stance”, so I became a Democrat in college. I came to believe that Republicans are overlooking the more obvious results of our historical indifference to the plight of our less successful, our least economically advantaged and our less educated American populace. In fact, they are the true Majority in our Land of the Free.

Some of us may feel that those who haven’t managed to achieve a comfortable middle class income (as demonstrated by ownership of a house and a yard with a picket fence) are simply not deserving of the basic luxuries. Perhaps some of us think those who fail to rise to the standard of living that every law-abiding, “comfortable” middle-class working American have somehow not followed the “rules”…