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Fast-forward to today. Anyone living in the good ol\u2019 US of A could say the same thing. A recent tidbit of news circulating is that in New York City, developers of high-rises that house mostly the monied, will have a \u201cpoor door\u201d<\/a> for the few with low income who live there. To me, this smacks of the \u201cColored\u201d doors seen in the American South during the Jim Crow era (and some parts of the North too).<\/p>\n

Not just in NYC, but in other parts of the US we see this \u201cfuck the poor\u201d attitude. Despite growing numbers of the unemployed and foreclosed, we have representatives in Washington cutting away at long time safety nets for such people. Today, we see more concern for banks, corporations, fat-cat politicians, and celebrities than We The People (or the 99%). We have major cities phasing out low-income neighborhoods for higher-income residents; or increasing the property taxes to chase the low income folk out.<\/p>\n

Even amongst We The People (me too), we have this \u201cfuck the poor\u201d attitude. We complain about how our taxes are supporting \u201cwelfare queens,\u201d or \u201clazy\u201d people on unemployment or disability. We play \u201cblame the victim\u201d with those who lost their houses due to the mortgage mess, or were downsized from a company through no fault of their own. We say, \u201chad they been more careful\u201d or \u201cthey should\u2019ve been saving their money\u201d. How quickly we forget that a catastrophic illness to us or a family member could wipe out our \u201cwealth\u201d in an instant.<\/p>\n

Plus, how many of us are complaining about the fact that our taxes are financing a bloated military<\/a> that\u2019s dragging the US into bankruptcy while making us pariahs in the world\u2019s eyes? How many of us are protesting the real \u201cwelfare queens,\u201d corporations that are given \u201cpersonhood\u201d status; the very same corporations that laid off some of us while they still generated a profit? How about these career representatives in Washington that are making a killing now, and with their future pension? Have any of us called for scaling downtheir pay and imposing term limits?<\/p>\n

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