I have always wanted to shoot a documentary about life under capitalism; that is it not LEAVE IT TO BEAVER or the COSBY show. This film would show homeless families, the degradation at the welfare office, the neighborhoods that look bombed out, the closed factories, the folks standing on street corners, the filled emergency rooms, the slum housing. One of the things that used to bother me the most was the bars on the windows when I went to pick up my food stamps, like we were criminals. One time they closed while folks were still waiting in line. Folks had no way to feed their children that night, I thought that there was going to be a riot. Last week I drove a friend over 10 miles to food stamp place. It was very difficult to find being around the corner of a building that looked like it only had offices in the front. I only knew that it was the food stamp place because their was a small hand scrawled sign taped to the door. There was a woman asleep on the ground outside. We then discovered that the food stamp place didn't open till 2:30 PM and it was 9:45 am. Of course, there was the time that I fed my kids on donated zucchini and tea because we had no refrigerator even though my spouse was working. This was the same time period that we had to shit in a hole behind the house because the toilet quit working. These images in film would have convinced the Russians to clean up their version of socialism instead of trading it for the viciousness of capitalism. A lawyer acquaintance of mine recently reminded me that our system fluctuates from the left to the right and this was just another rightward swing. I said, "But people die during these periods." I refuse to shrug my shoulders at this economic violence.
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