Gil Smart in his column “Freedom from want” observes:
“Do we still have freedom from want? Two decades ago a rising tide of hunger in this country would have been treated like the crisis it is. Instead, we greet it with a collective shrug, if not outright hostility. They have cell phones! They’re not working hard enough! As if familial crises, medical misfortune, the loss of a job or death of a breadwinner is never a factor. As if those who do make poor decisions, and their children, and their communities, should all be made to suffer for mistakes and misfortune.”
WATCHDOG: A clarion call for decency and compassion on how we regard and treat our fellow Americans. It is not only appropriate for Thanksgiving, but for every day. A wag of the tail!
Obviously the federal government must step in and deal with this crisis IMMEDIATELY! I think a few trillion dollars of our great-grandchildren’s future income – borrowed from the Chinese – ought to solve the problem, don’t you?