It's no secret what's wrong with America!

Yesterday while driving home from the movies I couldn't help but notice the new construction at the northern end of the Las Vegas Strip. After all the highway that I was on ran right past the massive new Trump tower and the Wynn and the Encore Hotels and Resorts. As I took in the view I had a very distinct feeling of shame for what I saw. Now why should I, or anyone for that matter, feel shame when looking at the impressive Las Vegas skyline with it's massive hotels reaching to the sky? Well it's like this....to see such amazing multi billion dollar resorts like these made me realize just how small and poor and insignificant I was in comparrison. In that moment I felt the disparity between those that 'have' and those that 'have not'. I felt poor in comparrison. My little retail job will never afford me so much as one single night in those luxurious hotels...and I wondered what it would be like to have so much money that I wouldn't think twice about staying at either place for a week, or two or more, and slapping down the cash for my stay.

As I drove past these hotels and back to the reality of the neighborhoods of Las Vegas I saw many homes and apartments, and people just like me walking down the sidewalks. I saw the 'un-rich' the 'every day folk'....the people that we would call the 'have nots'.

It was then that I truly realized what was wrong with this country. There is a vast divide between those that have money and those that struggle just to pay the rent...and I sensed a deep black canyon in between.

I guess it would be really cool to be rich. To have what the Trumps and the Wynns of the world have. But then I realized that to have all of that could be a far more unsatisfying life than the life I am living as a 'have not'. I cannot imagine the pain and misery that comes from having endless wealth and I don't think that I would want too, because there must be some very lonely moments at the 'top.'

I realized that with such a disparity between the rich and poor that America as a whole will never be living up to it's greatest potential. We will always have the homeless on the street and the snobs in high rises that wouldn't even give them a second glance. We will have those who are ill and will die because they can't afford to be treated for the simplest of afflictions, and there will be others who go to the Dr. because their botox has worn out.

Until those that have, truly quit building enormous skyscrapers and monuments to their own egos and wealth we will all be a poor nation, just in different ways....and that, my friend is what is wrong with America!