“We the people who make under $30 to $50k per year deserve the bailout, not the CEO’s of corps and bankers that make and retire on $600,000,000!!! more than we do/Leaving us to starve and lose our homes”
I was driving down to see my daughter this past weekend and came across the car in the photo and couldn’t help thinking, “Where is ‘hope’ lately?” Has anyone seen it around?
We got the change (okay, so Obama is more of the same, but they did have to change the presidential monograms); however, hope has left the building.
I am in South Carolina and our newspapers are full of hopelessness.
Amy Goldstein of the Washington post recently wrote:
Columbia, SC – The scenes here are now familiar in places deeply bruised by the recession: The Salvation Army gets so many calls from people desperate for help with overdue utility bills that, one morning, its phone system crashed. The Family Service Center of South Carolina is deluged with clients seeking free counseling for delinquent mortgages. And the shelves at the Life Force food pantry run out of rice, canned stew meat and black-eyed peas in less than an hour.
Yet in few places is the nonprofit sphere being tested as profoundly as in this Southern city – the capital where, figures released this week show, the unemployment rate is now second-worst in the nation . . .
And from the Greenville News:
The recession is driving more and more people to seek mental health services, overwhelming agencies struggling with shrinking budgets.
At the Greenvile chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, attendance at a support group for caregivers is up 40 percent over last year, said executive director Kelly Troyer. And the weekly group for patients has seen a jump of nearly 400 percent, she said, from 65 last year to 318.
Job loss, home foreclosures and mounting bills are pushing people to the edge, she said.
South Carolina also happens to be the state where Oprah chose to tell us, “He is the ONE.”
So, all I can say is WHERE IS THE DAMN HOPE I WAS PROMISED?
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