© Spencer Platt/Getty Images According to the Department of Homeless Services, the number of homeless people in New York City has risen by more than 20,000 over the past five years.
Hundreds of full-time New York City workers are homeless and in San Francisco bus drivers sleep in their cars to save money: this is a never-ending crisis In the United States, disaster has become our most common mode of life. Proof that our daily existence was something other than a simmering, smoldering disaster has been historically held somewhat at bay by the myth that hard work equals some kind of subsistence living. For the more deluded amongst us, this 'American dream' even got us to believe we could be something called 'middle class'. We were deceived.
For those not yet woke, I don't see how y'all can stay asleep when story after story proves how screwed we are.
The
New York Post, no bastion of bleeding heart liberalism,
reported on Monday that "Hundreds of full-time city workers are homeless". These are people who clean our trash and make our city, the heart of American capitalism, safe and livable, including for those who plunder the globe from Wall Street. These are men and women, living in shelters and out of their cars, who have government jobs - the kind of workers conservatives
love to paint as greedy, gluttonous pigs.
When a full time government worker can't "find four walls and a roof to call his own" in the city he serves, we are living in a perpetual state of disaster capitalism.
Comment: The daily atrocities Israel commits against a defenseless population should outrage anyone who is paying attention. Calls for dialogue have been heard before, and yet today nothing has changed. To continue to blame both sides in the conflict is naive at best and propagandistic at worst. Until Israel is forced to treat Palestinians with respect and uphold international law, nothing can change.
See also: The "Middle Ground" Fallacy in Gaza