On The Road: Destination-Oklahoma City, Ok story by August H Mallory

As I arrived in town to do this story on the shutting down of needed services for the poor and homeless, I could not help but notice the strain that it has put on many people in Oklahoma City, even average working people are losing their jobs, losing their homes. and there is now a higher increase of families seeking the services of family shelters. as I look all around Oklahoma City, I can see the loss that people feel. poverty in america is forever increasing, in January we swear in a new president. but even he cannot save an entire nation from poverty. jobs are good to have yes' but it going to take alot more than a job to pull people out of this nasty mess we are in. as I make my way around Oklahoma City, the majority of poor neighborhoods are more and more present. I served in the U.S Navy I have been all over the world. and I am familiar with scenes of poverty. having been to northern africa, southern europe, south america, central mexico, and many other parts of the world. poverty is a demon that will never go away. and it really hurts to see such poverty in my own country, a nation that is supposed to be the richest nation in the world. deny aide to it's own citizens, turning people away from shelters, when it's very cold outside. food that runs short because the need is too great. I have to say that this is just utterly crazy. the problem is not only in Oklahoma City but all across america, the arrogance of city, state and federal officials need to change. I have even challenged government officials to live on the streets for 24 hours just to get an idea of what it feels like to live on the streets. no one has accepted my challenge yet. and while I am in Oklahoma City, I am calling on city council members to do a better job in helping their less fortunate citizens. I have even talked with social service workers, and they have really given me some very sad and shocking stories. social workers blame the government and clients blame the social workers for not doing their jobs. in either case I have discovered that there is alot of finger pointing going on within the system. I see the same thing in seattle. but the lowlife nickels administration needs to be kicked out of office. I never knew that there was so much greed and corruption in our nations levels of government, the recent scandal of the govenor of illinois has created a bad image for the democratic party, this has truly made barack obama's team look very bad.
and here in Oklahoma City there's alot of dirt going on within the social service network. nonprofits are showing favoritism to certain people who they want serve, and deny services to others that qualify for services but agencies will not help them. we speak about discrimination in various areas, and I have seen that discrimination here in Oklahoma City, and this is very sad. agencies that are established to help people are not doing their jobs, and I have seen this sort of thing all across america. this matter most certainly needs to be addressed. plus I think many agencies are pocketing money, they just haven't been caught yet. but eventually they will get caught, and there will be some people doing some serious jail time. I hate to say this but america is a very corrupt nation I hear all of this talk about how righteous america is, buty actually america is no better or different that countries that are ran by a dictatorship. but the world knows this. I need not say more.