>From today's Truthout:
But the White House isn't seeing Gary, or any of those other places where
basic necessities are truly scarce, where jobs are so few and fleeting that
many have simply stopped looking, where hope for a hand from the government is
dying or dead. And in his State of the Union address, Obama made that vast
oversight - or, perhaps, that triangulation-driven choice of calculated neglect
- abundantly clear.
In the rousing SOTU, Obama spoke of "winning the future" through
innovation: supercomputers that squeeze extra mileage out of nuclear plants,
applications that allow firefighters to download designs onto their handhelds,
the wonders of near-universal high-speed wireless Internet access. But in a
country where one in three Americans don't earn enough to cover their minimum
expenses, the president didn't utter a substantive word about the poor.
"In America," Obama told us, "innovation doesn't just change our lives.
It's how we make a living."
If only every American had that option.
To read more go to: http://www.truth-out.org/winning-future-whom67166
Ed
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