James Drogan

Three things came together in my mind this afternoon.

First, is the article from last Sunday's New York Times, Richest Are Leaving Even the Rich Far Behind.

Second, is the article from today's Wall Street Journal, House Panel's Spending Bill Ends 49 Government Programs.

Third, is Paul Krugman's op-ed in today's New York Times, Losing Our Country.

America is becoming a society comprising two classes;  the very wealthy and everyone else.  The divide between the two becomes increasingly more difficult to conquer.  The House Panel's cut of programs in Labor and Health and Human Services makes it just that more difficult to cross the divide.

I am reminded of the last line of a poem by the Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes Jr.

" And the greatest theft of all is to rob one's right to be."