things i saw...

[Lilith7]

There were camps of homeless unemployed in Steinbeck's time, & there has been many more than one school shooting. We humans really are extremely slow learners; especially Americans it seems.

Maybe they need another FDR & New Deal; what they & the world do not need is yet another war.

i dont know what the solution is
FDR and the Deals were about employment and cash generation.
its not about employment, there seems to be plenty.
it seems to be spiralling costs and stagnant wages.
the disparity between the haves and have-nots is wider than ever.
the reality of it is that many others are only one or two paychecks away from financial catastrophe as well.
any hiccup in income flow will see you lose everything.
there is no middle class. you either rich or you aint.
it is deplorable that the biggest cause of bankruptcy in america is from healthcare.

Yes their health system is disgraceful - basically only for the wealthy. Thanks mainly to the selfish, greed based Neo Liberalism, those western countries which embraced it all now have a much smaller or non existent middle class.

And it doesn't need to be that way which is what's really annoying; they only need to take a leaf out of the book of those Nordic countries which do it all with higher taxation. What it comes down to is allowing people to suffer while a few become immensely wealthy.