Treating People Poorly In America

NOBODY KNOWS HOW MANY HOMELESS PEOPLE there are in America. No matter what number is advertised, the actual number is likely to be much higher. It is several million at the very least, maybe tens of millions. As the wealth of the nation concentrates in fewer and fewer hands, the cost of living increases, and most people find themselves losing ground financially. Homelessness increases, and is no longer restricted to self destructive derelicts. In America, homelessness is moving into the working and middle class. In Santa Barbara, California, a wealthy community, there are middle class ladies in their seventies living in very nice cars, SUVs, Cadillacs, because they were evicted from their homes and cannot find a new one. There is a seven year wait for senior housing in Santa Barbara, and some people no longer bother keeping their names on the waiting list. One lady showers at the Y every morning, then sets up her easel and does her painting in a local park all day. People with some savings and social security income are homeless, because of a shortage, indeed an absence of affordable housing across the country. As the divorce rate increases, and more people stay single, more Americans are approaching their senior years in our individualistic loner culture with little or no family support structure, and the sheer mobility of American society leaves millions of us without any deep roots in the community. For a country as wealthy as the United States of America to have this kind of homeless problem is, to say the least, ridiculous, just as it is ridiculous and incredible that one out of every five American children has food insecurity. Just as it is shameful that so many of America's heroic military veterans are homeless, largely because they can't get the medical help they need, or the support and assistance they need reintegrating into our cold and lonely culture, dealing with such issues as housing and employment. Jefferson said it best: "I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God is just, and that his justice cannot sleep forever." In the Untied States of America, it is very much past the time when we should take a good hard look at how we treat other nations, ourselves, and each other.............PLEASE TELL A FRIEND ABOUT THIS WEBSITE. FREE EXPRESSION IS VITAL. THANKS!