HOPES AND REFLECTIONS

People are hungry, homeless, and falling into despair. It is disgusting to think that in the 21st century, the poverty rate is rising. Why should Bill Gates, or Warren Buffett, or Rupert Murdock, or Jeff Bezos, or the Walton family, have so much money? Why not a more equal distribution of the wealth? How can we give 700 billion dollars to rich bankers, yet deny ourselves universal health-care? We bailed out the auto industry, but we refuse to bail out one another. We are a people lost in cynicism, distrust, and disinterest. Our government has become completely incompetent, incapable of representing the people who elect them. The new millennium is filled with desperate challenges that must be answered if we are to survive, the biggest of which will be to attack an epidemic of disengagement.