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I am:
Pro-Choice
Anti-Death Penalty
Pro hand gun restrictions
Pro universal health care/insurance
Pro separation of church and state
Anti "No Child Left Behind" (cuts funding to the schools that need it most)
Pro government assistance (although middle of the road on this, like use "workfare")
Would rather see us spending $1 billion a week on our citizens than on Iraqi citizens.
On my drive to work about two months ago, I noticed a "shelter" set up under a viaduct on the freeway. Blankets strewn up, a mattress with blankets on it, etc. Every day, I look at the shelter and wonder how the person is doing. We've had a very harsh winter and I worried about them making it in the cold. After a fresh snowfall, I noticed footprints in the snow leading up to the shelter and was relieved. For the first time yesterday, I saw the man who lives there. It was very windy and bitter cold and he was securing the blankets that are his walls. Today, I looked again. I feel sad every time I drive by. I do not know how to help this man. I'm living on the edge financially myself and wonder what would happen to ME if I lost my job. I think about how it is impossible for this man to get a job when he has no home. You can't put "I-75 and M-10 viaduct" as your address on a job application. He is obviously smart enough to keep himself alive through this winter and probably has some skills that could be put to work but... This morning after I passed, and felt the same sadness that I feel every day as I pass him, I thought to myself "If this feeling means I'm a bleeding heart liberal, then I guess I am". This man haunts my mind and my heart. I'd like to take Bush to see the man under the viaduct and tell him how great the economy is.
Dee
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