The Way I See It #178

I was sitting down to my computer this morning with my obligatory grande house blend coffee from Starbucks when the brown cardboard sleeve that the coffee comes in slipped off revealing the "Way I See It" series. I always knew that it was on there, but never took notice since I was always rushing around. The purpose of the series is to get people talking and engaged in "good, healthy discussion."
Here is what my cup had to say:

The measure of genuine civilization, it has been said, is the quality of life for a nation's poorest and least priviledged people. By that measure, we are barbarians. Our current level of inequality cannot be justified or sustained.
--Robert W. McChesney Author, media critic and professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

As I sit here in downtown Manhattan, one block from Wall Street, I wonder how I can work to better the quality of life for this nation's poor. Short of donating money and volunteering my time I don't have a good way of bettering society's ills. Hell, I have enough of a problem keeping myself above water.
More thought on this is required.