What if you don't have a boat?

During this time of national emergency, it is important, of course to solve the immediate problems. Then there comes a time to look at the underlying cause of those problems. Although it is easy to point fingers and blame the current administration (which is deserving IMO of the finger pointing), it is also important to dig deep and identify all of the wrong turns we made. And so I give you this...

"To be poor in America was to be invisible, but not after this week, not after those images of the bedraggled masses at the Superdome, convention center and airport. No one can claim that the post-Reagan orthodoxy of low taxes and small government, which does wonders for the extremely rich, also inevitably does wonders for the extremely poor. What was that about a rising tide lifting all boats? What if you don't have a boat?"

- Eugene Robinson, columnist.

Source: The Washington Post