Fwd: On the forever HOMELESS problem - the elephant in the room ( to Mark Patinkin )

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From: Ron Ruggieri <radicalron72647@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 12:29 PM
Subject: On the forever HOMELESS problem - the elephant in the room ( to Mark Patinkin )
To: mpatinki@providence-journal.com

     I just read your June 6 column, " Working poor are also the face of the homeless ".  The story of 51 year old " Ellen " and kids could have been written in your first year at the Providence Journal ( the beginning of the Reagan era ?  )

         There is an old taboo among journalists writing for the mainstream news media : never indict the social system of CAPITALISM when covering human misery stories.

             As a democratic socialist - wisely ignored by the Money gods-  I am free to say that it is precisely sacrosanct PRIVATE PROPERTY rights which make the homeless problem perpetual.

           I think peaceful social change is absolutely possible . But it becomes less and less likely . Daily I witness scenes worthy of Charles Dickens " A Tale of Two Cities " with its WARNING of the Great French Revolution.

               By the way most working class people cannot afford a ticket to the popular play "  Les Miserables ".

           [ I will post this e-mail to you on my blog ]   

 

   NOTE : you are in your element when you write about                                                         Ron Ruggieri

 issues  more serious -less fluffy.

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