Saturday, February 26, 2011
The Sacrifice part of Shared Sacrifice
Bob Herbert talks to people in Philadelphia who have sacrificed much in this time of relocation of assets upwards. Their stories are no longer unusual or uncommon.
The meeting was in the home of Elizabeth Lassiter, a certified nursing assistant whose job is in Hatfield, Pa., about 45 minutes north of Philadelphia. She doesn’t earn a lot or get benefits, but it’s a big step up from last year when she was working part time in Warminster and for a while had to sleep in her car.And this is what the Koch Bros. and the Banksters want more of. Even these people have assets not yet taken.
“Back then I was working for a nursing agency and they kept saying they didn’t have full-time work,” she said. Until she could raise enough money for an apartment, the car was her only option. “I needed someplace to lay my head,” she said. “It was very hard.”
These are the kinds of stories you might expect from a country staggering through a depression, not the richest and supposedly most advanced society on earth. If these were exceptional stories, there would be less reason for concern. But they are in no way extraordinary. Similar stories abound throughout the United States.
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