I watched a family become homeless today. A single mother and her two very young sons were evicted from their apartment are now out on the street. She is sick and can't work. She has no family or other support systems. She actually got kicked out of her apartment about 2 weeks ago but moved in with another generous family in the same complex. Once the apartment managers found out, they threatened both families with eviction if the mother and two children did not vacate immediately.
The kids, unfortunately, are just old enough to completely understand what is going on and be terrified, but much too young to do anything about it. The apartment managers had about 1000 ways to show mercy to this family.
I hope the apartment managers don't sleep a wink tonight, knowing that a five year old and a 7 year old boy have no roof over their heads. The apartment managers did not earn one single penny from this eviction. They didn't earn a promotion or win an award. Of course they are perfectly within their legal rights to chuck this family out...big freaking deal. This is what is wrong with Capitalism, left to itself it is devoid of compassion, of humanity and children get thrown away.
I am not going to sugar coat my anger tonight. I am pissed.
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