Lack of Sympathy

As I watch 20/20 and they are chronicaling stories about struggling families. I watch the story of the man who is now delivering pizza, his family moves to an apartment and sells their home and all the stuff in it, they are still able to keep their daughter in softball, and an "anonymous" donor is paying the $30,000 per year to keep their children in the same private school that they have gone to since starting school. I can't feel any sympathy for this man.
I imagine they are the people who have in the past turned a skeptical eye toward others. They at one time looked down on others who have less and felt they were less because of it. We are who we are with or without our stuff. I can't have sympathy for this man and his family who have gone from excess to the world the rest of us live in.
Maybe 20/20 isn't asking me to have sympathy. Maybe they have published this to show all those others who live in this guy's neighborhood or one of the other cookie cutter neighborhoods like it, that this could happen to them too. They aren't immune--they are not better than anyone else.
President Obama has it right when he promotes service. We need to stop turning away from those in need and finding a way to make a difference.

Taxes and protesting

This story is just too good! If you find it ironic that middle class republicans support all the tax breaks for the rich....read on...

http://www.alternet.org/story/132440/the_hilarious_hypocrisy_of_the_gop%27s_so-called_%27tea_bag_revolution%27/?page=1