Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

Like I said,I don't take any of your crap serious until you see something wrong with 3% having 85% or more of the wealth of a society.Until you attack that huge problem,you will have stuff like the tragedy in New Orleans continuing to happen.It's not about "social engineering." It's about getting rid of laws that help the very rich get even richer.So many people do what you just did to me.You tell me to go volunteer at a soup kitchen.Yet you don't want to change things to stop favoring the ultra rich.Those people who lost everything in that poor area of New Orleans wouldn't have been helped by soup.They needed action to strengthen those levies.That request(for money to strengthen the levies) had been made, and had then been rejected by the Bush Administration.How can this happen? It happens because we spend the country's resources helping the rich get richer.Huge tax breaks for big oil etc.Believe me,those levies would have been built well and /or reinforced properly if this area was well to do.So,keep going and serving soup as the ultra-rich get richer(and leave less and less for others to improve their lives with.)Maybe if we didn't have huge breaks for big oil,some of these people could have actually afforded to fill their tanks and get out of town.Those billions of profits made by big oil come from tightening the economic noose tighter and tighter on those that can least afford to be giving what little they have to help pay for these 10-30 billion dollar profits for big oil companies.The next time you hear about an oil company making 10 billion dollars,I want you to stop and think how much money(for soup)it actually cost poor people to pay for helping the rich oil companies.Gas prices have gone down 50 cents a gallon,and that's because the oil companies want their buddies to get re-elected.They will say it ain't so.They say prices would have come down anyways.I don't believe that those gas prices would have come down like this.Believe that tripe if ya want.By simply voting against Republicans,one can do a hell of a lot.You fail to see that.Fact is that this party works it's tail off to help guys like Donald Trump get richer,and richer.It works hard to kill funding for projects like fixing those levies.The typical poor person needs money to pay their electric bill,and to buy the over-priced gas to get to work.Most people are in denial about 3 % of Americans owning 85% of all our wealth here.Until that changes,there will be a high crime rate,and a huge poor underclass.