The Children s March on Washington gets headlines for a day, as thousands demonstrate against budget cuts that destroy working class and poor families. In twenty years of supply-side economics, greed, and glitz, we have become a society where beggars and homeless people are common place. Children are abused and abandoned. Parents work too long for too little. Housing is unaffordable.
Cities are unlivable.
Freeways are undrivable. No wonder we fritter away our summer watching baseball. Hell, if Tweedle Bill and Tweedle Bob are the best the great arena of American Politics can produce, we may as well fiddle while the cities burn. Perhaps politics will seem more important after the Olympics and the conventions, but I doubt it. I for one, am concentrating on local campaigns and the Congressional races.