Poverty in America: to become worse
Frosty WooldridgeAccording to columnist Dottie Lamm, 68 percent of a African-American children are raised by single mothers. The illiterate and poor beget more illiterate and poor—all on taxpayer dollars. What civilization can maintain that disparity?
You'e really watching the death of a nation, the demise of a world power crumbling under its own weight. I've said this for the past 20 or so years: America will be the first Fourth World Nation; either one or the other: crushing poverty or uber wealth, no in between or way out except suicide or starvation. Happy thought. Soylent Green may not be such a far-fetched idea after all, and it would be very practical.
I think we need to get rid of the Statue of Liberty; don't worry about putting a new coat of paint on the old girl, or shore her up for the tourists to the tune of over 100 million bucks when we're in the throes of a depression, just push her over into the harbor and let her become a natural reef for some endangered fish - or sell her to an iron monger. Aren't we getting really tired of supporting "the wretched refuse from your teeming shores." We're becoming a nation of wretched refuse. Where can we go to escape? Maybe Mexico; I mean, all their human trash will be here. Those golden doors have turned to plastic made in China and sold for a dollar three eighty at Walmart.