Simply Irresponsible (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Failing to recognize to honor our commitment the obligation of society at the base of the social contract The governed ...
Poems about kathy (31 Poems)
Unconscionable Cuts (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Hurting our neighbors our sisters and brothers those crying out given short shrift Only a few seconds to plead their ...
With Their Families (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The choice we are making to defund the services will cause lasting pain will tear apart families Many of these ...
The Costs to Society (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Something yet unseen but the prophesies will come the warnings that were spoken the shadows of these cuts The costs ...
An Immoral Choice – 2 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Making them our sacrifice cutting their services defunding the programs that help those in need An immoral choice pitting our ...
Reconsider what you are doing (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
There is time yet we can choose another another path through the shadows without hurting our neighbors We should be ...
Drastic Cuts (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not yet desperate but the choices being made drastic cuts in services in funding for the poor Services will be ...
The Services They Need (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Not something abstract the people who came before you crying out for assistance for dignity each day Crying for you ...
In the Care of the State (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The costs will be greater though maybe not tomorrow down into our future when the costs are fully realized The ...
The Need is Greater (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The need is greater than what we have funded long waiting lists and unfunded mandates Now in this cruel season ...
Restore the Funding (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Pull back from the brink this collective madness restore the funding to aid our neighbors The social contract the covenant ...
Their Blood on Our Hands – part 2 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The innocents will die they may even take their own lives some will die cold and alone others may go ...
Devastating (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The cuts deep, cruel devastating our people shredding the net there to protect them holding them up Falling to the ...
Indigent Families (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Indigent families need our help needing our love, to lift them up Society providing the safety net that they may ...
No Counsel with Them (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
No counsel with them no one beside them their advocates on the chopping block No one their to balance the ...
No Counsel for Them (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The indigent, the helpless those who have been beaten down those needing assistance to stand on the ground No counsel ...
In Their Own Homes (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Society once believed the laws say so better to have us dwelling living in our own homes But some need ...
Keeping Families Together (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
We should be sure that we always strive giving the tools keeping families together Instead we are cutting the fabric ...
To care for our neighbors (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Something elemental the same as universal rights those endowed by our creator not given by mankind The same as these ...
The Vipers in Power (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The vipers John called out seated in power claiming their path righteous while they stand on their neighbors those who ...
Removing Their Voice (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Removing their voice in the halls of justice the children, their parents those who care for them Removing their voice ...
By the Best Interest Standard (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The work to see to ascertain the truth more than just one layer to get in the way By the ...
Inside Prison Walls (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The children, the aged, the infirm among us destined to oblivion marginalized in the budget services removed aides eliminated advocated ...
The Poison of Their Anger – part 1 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The poison of their anger revenge served cold gutting all social services far into the bone Cutting the advocates the ...
The Poison of Their Anger – part 2 (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
In the poison of their anger losing sight of their children wanting to cause them pain the soon to be ...
If this were your child, your sister, your mother (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Think about these people the ones they care for the stories they are telling their crying out Not as strangers ...
Tearing the Fabric (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The choices being made to cut services for the poor, the disabled the aged, our family Tearing the fabric our ...
Wisdom in Their Decisions (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Knowing the times we live in the groundswell of frustration the distance of the government seemingly, from our day to ...
Out of Fear (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
Speaking from their hearts against cruel choices petitioning for redress before the leaders praying for justice assistance from their neighbors ...
I Beg You (Raymond A. Foss Poem)
The plea of a mother of others speaking joining together as if with one voice I beg you to reconsider ...