@vintagecraze50 wrote:
RETRO, me and my husband were riding our bikes today on a beautiful trail in North Carolina near waterfalls. It is our greatest pleasure in life to enjoy nature and to get out and get moving. Today and a week before we met a man who was living in his car on the side of this beautiful road near the water. He asked if we had any food. He has disabilities very bad arthritis, bad hips and knees, older man like in his late 60’s. Only family he had was mom left and she died leaving him with nothing. He cannot keep a job because he cannot get medical treatment for his arthritic joints. We stopped and gave him food and since we frequent that place often we will be bringing him more stuff. I tole him Medicaid may be expanded shortly in NC and maybe then he can get his medical help. We live in an idyllic place but there are many homeless people living in the woods here. I assumed that many will shrug their shoulders and say this man just does not want to work, burned his bridges etc. But, no, I DO NOT BELIEVE that for him or many others in this situation. We live in the richest country in the world and this is what is happening to many.
Wish one could say that was unique but its all over American and much of the world. One of the matters than continues to elevate like a virus in its own right has been the lack of working towards equalization as portion of globalization. I've been spewing that for years, the old globalization train took off from the station the moment the tracks were laid yet the cultural and lifestyle disparities as a result have not been addressed with as much focus as that of wealth building.
America is unique in the world and most American's don't realize that. They deem in "My home" where-as the entire concept of America was to be "Home for all those who come here with wants of freedom and liberty." I know someone certainly challenge the history of said statements success and failure but conceptually what its all about. The more individualistic American get and loose that which is our common bonding the lesser the land will continue to thrive.
All for one and one for all.
Sink or swim, for that matter crawl.
Do it together and assail the walls!
Learn smart, be careful that is the call.
