The divide has grown

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To the Editor:

In 2004 then senator Barack Obama spoke to the Democrat national convention. He spoke of a divided America. A “tale of two countries” as he put it. A country divided between black and white, rich and poor, educated and non-educated. Nowhere else was this better illustrated than in Ferguson, Missouri in the last week.

The rioting: there was more than a riot, it was a low level insurrection of the down-and-out against the powers that be. It was not just about officer Darren Wilson and Michael Brown. In many ways things are worse than they were in 2004. The divide has grown even wider since then. The Republicans take care of the rich, and, despite Obama’s misguided help, little has been done to help the poor and the lower middle class.

The best social program of all is a good paying job, and no one in charge since 2004 has done much to provide that most basic need to all of us. As the cliché goes “all of the good jobs have gone to China.” So we are stuck in a rut. No one seems to care either what the future holds for this country. The bills keep mounting, and now a whole city center is burned to the ground. If you want to know where this anger comes from, look at the number of homeless, poor and deeply in debt people out there.

We need coordinating councils between government, labor, business (large and small) and regular citizens to “tweak” existing laws and regulations to focus one thing: bringing the jobs back home and do whatever it takes to accomplish this goal.

Kevin Vealey

Warwick

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  • ronruggieri

    The writer Kevin Vealey of Warwick clearly sees that the problem of RACE in America is inseparable from the problem of CLASS. And yet the new Republican Congress is less representative of the majority of people here than the lone black man in the White House, President Barack Obama. Obama has very little time left to shift from Neo Democrat to New Deal Democrat . Franklin D. Roosevelt did not fear to scare the privileged class in America. For years now the Neo-Democrats have been fawning on the still comfortable middle class while neglecting and ignoring the people whom socialist writer Michael Harrington called " The Other America ". I wish the so called New Atheists would have something more inspiring to say to them than " life sucks and then you die ! ". Does their Logic & Reason apply to the everyday madness of capitalist America ? Is there no principle that rises higher than crackpot atheist Ayn Rand's " Virtue of Selfishness " ? Does the dumb Cosmos bless our ONE PERCENT plutocracy ?

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