Footnote on the Previous Post

The poor are important, because they enable the rest of us to be middle class. Without them, we are all at the bottom -- or close to it.

As a friend of Patrick's, a guy who had been homeless and who became a well respected activist, said, "We are all one truck -- one accident -- away from homelessness."

A scary thought. But those of us with educations, who call ourselves middle class, can use the poor and the poorly educated as a defense against that thought.

Hah! I sing in triumph.
I have a PhD!
I will never be homeless!
No harm can come to me!