Today, we live in a country where the poor and old cannot afford health care, We live in a nation where the economy is falling apart; a nation where 44 million people live on less than $12,000 dollars a year; a nation where over 2 million people are homeless; a nation where the entire media system is owned by only six media mega conglomerates; the nation with the highest crime rate in the world (not being at war); a nation with the world's largest prison population; a society where 25% of children under 12 live in poverty; a nation that gives Israel billions of dollars a year to kill and maim Palestinians while there are over 2 million homeless on our own streets; a nation where the gulf between the rich and poor is wider than it is in almost all other civilized countries; a nation that supports dictatorships in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and many other countries around the world; a country that spies on its own citizens, has trashed the Constitution; a nation that has undertaken to torture people when it is known that no intelligence that comes from a tortured person is likely to be accurate; a nation where the government is full of corruption worse than any Banana Republic; a country where 40 percent of the homeless are military veterans,a nation with the world's highest teen suicide rates; We all say we care about this great nation but the facts speak for themselves