[Peace-discuss] how do we prepare room for the poor

[Karen Medina]

I've been thinking, how do we prepare room for the poor? So far, the
midwest has seen very little of the economic downturn, yet my hometown
cannot even seem to handle the bit we have seen.

In some ways, Mexico may be a bit more humane. In Mexico, the poor can
be in the streets, here we try to kick them out of everywhere. As if
we can get rid of them by not having to see them. But where should
they go?

Was it Ogden Nash who said "Everyone has the right to sleep under a
bridge"? Most of us choose not to.

We are only as good as our weakest members. If the poor don't have
access to medical care, nutritious meals, clean water, and clean
clothes then disease will set in. Diseases will spread.

A society is tested by how it treats its members. So far, we treat the
poor worse than the lowest animal. But they are human.

We will pay for not caring for the poor.

-karen medina