When I was nine or ten years old, I learned that the sun would one day burn out. I dissolved into tear at the mere idea that someday the sun would not rise. I was inconsolable. Sent home from school for my ‘bad’ behavior, my parents thought I had lost my mind. Finally, my father…
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Turning on the poor.
“I am sorry that I lived long enough to see the Middle Class I helped create turn on the poor.” –Tip O’Neill In our conversations about the current economic crisis, I hear so many people blame the poor for their poverty. They should have ‘known better’ or should be ‘more responsible’. Poverty is not a…