We live in a time and in a nation where the gorge between the poor and the wealthy is getting wider and deeper. And, as Milo Perkins said in the 1930s, we need “to find a way to build a bridge across that chasm.”
We are pained not just because of rising costs but by what feels like an irrational betrayal. Why would we, as a nation, want to harm an ally at great cost to our own citizens?