'On the Greyhound to Tampa'

The underclass is always with us. But lo, there are so many, so many of them these days.

This blogger writes about the disconnect between the have-nots and the rest of America:

"Politicians used to talk to, and about, the poor. There was the 'War on Poverty.' And Jack Kemp – who GOP Vice Presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan cites as one of his role models — was a vocal conservative voice for the centrality of the poor and working class to American public policy.
But over the last several decades, those same people have found themselves increasingly marginalized by both parties as they have focused on a narrow band of middle class swing voters."