Poverty in LA?

Yesterday, I read an article in the Los Angeles Times about the poor Coachella Valley. In it, David Kelly outlines the poverty-ridden lifestyle of Latino workers who are forced to live in ‘ramshackle’ mobile home parks with contaminated water. It’s a shame that in such an affluent society as the southern California, such poverty can reign. Its suffering like this, when citizens live in surprising misery, that is the source of real terrorism in this country. It’s the terror of not knowing whether a parent can feed their children at night, of not knowing whether the water they give them is filled with disease or industrial remnants. Perhaps, before spending billions of dollars to maintain the comfortable lifestyle of the middle and upper classes, maybe politicians should consider representing the best interests of his constituents, including the lower class, instead of corporate business interests like Enron and Haliburton.