reflections.

i've been reflecting on my ideas about improving education and opportunity for all in this country. and to want ends is this important? so what we all have a nice big house and a fancy car? no, i don't think so. i think what upsets me most is that some people have so much in excess while others have very little or none. when i ride my bike through the neighborhood near my school, i often get very upset. i pass house after house that is huge, complete with colonial columns and 3-car garages. i don't know how i could live with myself if i were living in so much excess while hundreds if not thousands of fellow portlanders are homeless and hungry. i'm not saying wealth is bad and money is evil, though i don't like it. i will admit many of the huge homes that surround me are very beautiful and surely nice places to live. i'll even go out on a limb and say that many of those people probably worked very hard to get to where they are. wealth becomes bad when the wealthy are living in such selfish excess while other can't ever afford a hot meal. the distribution of wealth is far too skewed. i think i read a statistic that the top 10% of our national income is being earned by fewer and fewer people. that means that there is just a small group of people who keep earning more and ore of the nation's wealth. and more and more people are out of work and homeless. where is the justice in that?