We're witnessing modern day version of Titanic's 'steerage'

[SaveAmerica]

I didn't like it then, I bawled my eyes out at the end of that movie when the ship's impoverished were there as ghosts on the ship, and I especially do not like to see it happening before my eyes. It's sickening that 100 years have passed between then and now and there have really been no changes in the treatment of the poor. After we get control of our country back we need to work overtime to keep that control and make one of our priorities to wipe out the levels of poverty we have.

[Arugula Latte]

1. Very true. But, let's remember, some blue bloods like Astor

went down with the ship as well.

[SaveAmerica]

4. Was he the captain? I felt the captain went down with ship out of

guilt for actions he took that caused its sinking. We won't see this captain taking responsibility for any of it.

[LisaM]

6. No, the captain did not go down with the Titanic

and was scorned for the rest of his life.

[geomon666]

8. The captain did go down with the ship

You're thinking of the owner, Bruce Ismay, who jumped on one of the last life boats to leave.

[MountainLaurel]

2. Fascinating comparison

And I think it's dead on.

:applause:

[Sabriel]

3. Except only about 1500 died on the Titanic n/t

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. OTOH, that 1500 was 2 out of 3. nt

[KittyWampus]

7. No, this is more like Soviet's handling of Chernobyl

[spuddonna]

9. That's a wonderful comparison...

And very succinct...

[gauguin57]

10. The old camp song talked about how the rich threw the poor "down below"

(see second verse of the old camp song, "The Titanic")

Oh they built the ship Titanic
To sail the ocean blue,
And they thought they had a ship that the water wouldn't go through
But the Lord's Almighty Hand said that ship would never land.
It was sad when the great ship went down...

(Chorus)
It was sad, SO SAD! It was sad, SO VERY SAD!
It was sad when the great ship went down to the bottom of the (husbands and wives,and little children lost their lives!) It was sad when the great ship went down.

Well they were not far from shore, say a thousand miles or more,
And the rich refused to associate with the poor,
So they sent them down below and they were the first to go.
It was sad when the great ship went down.

[SaveAmerica]

11. Kicking so we don't forget the poor of our country....

or challenges we all have ahead of us.


:kick: