Floor to questions so without further ado one thing i want to mention, a lot of people tend to conflate all families with chronically Homeless Individuals and they are two populations with different sets of needs so you might bear that in mind. The introduction to my book is called the family room, a place to sleep. For most of us it is a given in our lives along with a roof over our heads and our own front door to close, ever since the beginning of the european colonization of north america jamestown in 1607 and the mayflower pilgrims Plymouth Colony in 1620, communities on the source have had to deal with those among them who did not have a place to sleep, people who could not provide for themselves or their children and had no one to give them shelter. Despite the fact the new world offered any ablebodied person an abundance of seafood and fertile soil life was not easy. Disease, war and accidents were constantly leaving families to fend for themselves. A woman could be widowed in t
Would also turn out to be true and not because of some historical accident, but because our Economic System was intentionally rigged in favor of corporations and wealthy americans over everyone else. Trickle down economics was woven into the National Conversation consciousness as if it were written into the founding documents of our country. Two hundred years of struggle and progress had been intentionally reversed over the course of the last 30 years. If a foreign power had announced that was its plan for america, we would have gone to war. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] and were back live in nashville, and heres author Richard Schweid live from the southern festival of books. [inaudible conversations] thank you all very much for coming. Thanks, of course, to the southern festival of books. Open the floor to questions so without further ado one thing i want to mention, a lot of people tend to conflate all families with chronicall
Allies, president obama now plans a day to boost military presence in europe. He made at nouns. In poland. Not log ago he met with polish president. He also greeted u. S. Troops while in warsaw, this is his first stop in europe. Earlier today he met with the prime minister. Focus of his trip with focus ukraine and russia. Free elections in pole around. Mike viqueira traveling with the president. What can you tell us about the billion dollars Security Fund that president obama is requesting . Reporter well, michael, this is an extraordinary circumstances really. Here we have a group of nations. Poland, of course of course is the host who were once under the thumb of moscow and the soviet t union, all anxious about russias moves in ukraine. Make for mistake about it, the polish leader not minuting words in any way whatsoever saying russia is a threat. We want more cooperation from nato, we want he permanent bases here and president obam presideg forward a 1 billion propose toll aid these