Home Is Where the Heart Is
But Is the Speaker of the House Listening?
by Pat LaMarche
You know how you can tell when a kid’s been homeless too long? Ah, trick question. If you actually tried to figure that out then you’re worse off than 
anyone imagined and you may as well turn off your computer monitor and just walk away.
See, any amount of time — even a fraction of a second — is too long for a kid to be homeless.
But I guess you could’ve been lulled into believing that a certain amount of grief and pain on the part of our nation’s most important people is acceptable.  Maybe that ignorance is why nobody took to the streets and shut the nation down after the U.S. Congress voted to hurt the poorest children and the grownups they hang with; even after continuing to give big tax breaks to multinational loser companies who operate with contempt for the people of the United States. (more…)
