Not Just Poor

 

Here where the streets are paved in gold, more Americans are walking in the gutter. Despite our wealth and the power of our national economy, more of our fellow citizens are slipping into poverty, especially children and blacks. This according to a new Census Bureau report, released a month early, when Congress was in recess, to reduce reaction.

Today some 36-million Americans are living below the poverty line, a line which few above it would find themselves comfortable below. Poverty is defined as an income of $9,573 for an individual and $18,660 for a family of four with two children. Of course, these incomes buy more in some places than others, so some are doing a little better and many are doing a lot worse.

The numbers belie the specious palaver about an economic recovery. It ain’t happening, wasn’t happening and this is just the latest proof of the deception. Millions of jobs aren’t there, earning power has fallen while such basic costs as transportation and health care are soaring. And the bad news is that the people in Washington aren’t doing anything about the underlying problems.

The biggest problem is that the miscreants who have brought us to this sorry state remain in office. The great irony is that those who are getting the dirtiest end of the stick, like the 1.3 million who added themselves to the roles of the impoverished, aren’t going to vote for a change in leadership. Nor, probably, are the millions more added to the list of the medically uninsured.

Traditionally, the poor -- those who most rely on government assistance, to stay alive -- tend to stay away from the polls. Considering what The Bush Boy and his corrupt chorus on The Hill have done to our nation’s needy over the past few years -- they’ve simply swelled their ranks -- it’s a wonder there still is a race. If the poor voted, in their own best interests, there wouldn’t be.

And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.

 

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