Hi, everybody. We have a moral crisis in this country. I want to start with a quote of Franklin

Roosevelt's from his second inaugural address in 1937. He said, quote, the test of our progress

is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much. It is whether we provide enough for those

who have too little. You can hardly even imagine a president, even if he felt that way today,

actually saying it, we live in an age where there's not only this obscene glorification and

exultation of the obscenely wealthy, but even more dangerously, there is this demonization

of the poor that has taken hold of our national consciousness and is codified by the policies

of this administration.

I'm reminded also, of course, of the New Colossus, the brilliant poem by Emma Lazarus on

the Statue of Liberty, where she said,

give me your tired, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free.

Well, obviously, we may as well just get rid of that poem because we don't mean it anymore

in terms of immigrants trying to come to the United States, as so many of our own parents

and grandparents and great-grandparents did.

But also with what's happening now,

we're seeing the same kind of cruel treatment, not only against immigrants, but against people

here in the United States. I heard an interview the other day with Margaret Atwood, and

she said, apparently, the United States has decided it doesn't need its poor.

So we have now gotten to the point where we have a president

who basically is leading the charge against what he considers and what people like him consider

throwaway people. I live in Washington, D.C. We're seeing what's happening not only with the

soldiers who are here, you know, as we've been talking about, we have a 30-year low in crime in Washington, D.C.

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