I know I sound like a broken record, to myself as well, but we see things like this because we don't have serious discussions about the facts and ethics of our system for distributing economic power. The reign of bad economics is ending. We must begin to discuss real economics.

I think there are a lot of conversations about it.

I've lost hope that those in charge will ever do the right thing... It's obvious how much they hate the poor and they'll do anything to keep us poor and scrambling for a dignified life.

I don't think it's about hating the poor; it's about feeling no sense of ethical responsibility one way or the other for the poor, which is colder and almost worse. It's a sociopathic phenomenon that results from an amoral economic system. Amoral systems lead to immoral results.