Wherefore in order that the happiness of the saints may be more delightful to them and that they may render more copious thanks to God for it, they are allowed to see perfectly the sufferings of the damned.

--Saint Thomas Aquinas

"It is not enough merely to win; others must lose."

— Gore Vidal

It's not action being done to them, it's them being unable to sustain themselves.

Seems wasteful to me to increase military spending beyond even what the Pentagon has asked for and then when we are hit with the worst economic downturn in our lifetimes to just go "oopsy daisy, you really should have considered that you wouldn't really get any help from us".

Doesn't the federal government owe at least that much to people??

Are you suggesting that they should be able to provide services without any revenue or funding?

It seems to me they’re suggesting the federal government should step in, but they won’t.

Letting cities, business, and people fail provides opportunities for the true wealthy to corner more of the nations wealth. That's why they protected the banks and let 10 million families lose their homes in 2009. A lot of money was made off if that.