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Skriven 2015-01-24 21:37:23 av Damon A. Getsman (14232.fidonews)
Ärende: Yuma, AZ
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  Totally forgot.  I was going to mention my time in Yuma, AZ, as well.  God it
wasn't even minority there, unless you considered the fact that the whites were
quite possibly a minority.  The conditions I saw there were reprehensible. 
Twenty-eight percent unemployment when I was there, they said.
  I dated a woman for a bit, who was staying with friends.  They got evicted a
week or two after we started dating.  Her and her sons ended up starting to
stay in a tent out in the back yard of the friends I was staying with.  Before
that, I saw her roommate, at one point, drop her infant on the floor,
accidentally.  The size and color of the lump on that child's cranium was
horrifying, and she looked concerned, but certainly didn't do anything about
it.  Again, with torn families and no support networks, everyone was balls deep
in drugs and alcohol.
  The cops that I tried to get in there to take care of that situation didn't
care.  They just didn't care.  There were people shooting off the top of
buildings in town every few weeks.  They pulled their guns out and had armed
and ready backup when they were serving warrants.  They just didn't give a
shit.
  We live in one of the nicest places on earth, too.  The income disparity is
only getting worse, and lending more fuel to this fire that is destroying every
means that we have to keep ourselves stable.  People in the upper or middle
classes don't see it, but it's everywhere.  Christ I should go around town,
take some videos, and put them on youtube from here.  The sorrow is spreading,
and it comes primarily from the sociopaths that rise to the top of finance,
business, and government, because they are the ones willing to do the unethical
things like stabbing others in the back that those with morals will not do.  It
gives them an unfair advantage, and we all suffer for it as our lives are
bought out from under us.
  Sorry, this is something that pains me on a daily basis as I consider the
future for those whom I dedicate my life to.  My rant is now over.
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