"WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY"?

Yosuf, (formerly Cat Stevens) asked in song;"Where do the children play"? Which was asked in the 1970's. a time of  new "community development" done at the sacrifice of nature and "lived in" homes as well as playgrounds. Joni Mitchell's song "Big Yellow Taxi" had the same concern.

Time marches on and in this year,month,week, today and this second I ask "What about the kids"?  The tech revolution offers a place in front of the television/computer nonstop, playing "Grand theft Auto" or even "Mario Bros." and the list is endless.

Major cities and downtown U.S.A. are both working hard to redevelop and create sales and traffic with new condo's over looking the new improved main street. There is no doubt downtown improvements are needed. But not hiding or forgetting the young people and the old that live three blocks away. It is in with the new and out with the old.  Nothing  can stop this train called progress.

The '70's show "Good times" was a great statement of people being left behind  while prosperity looked the other way.

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Not only physically but also mentally, there are scores of people that are displaced to another location that is anywhere out of the way and out of sight and out of mind.

The children's education suffers and obviously their social behavior is not developed. They know how to operate a video game and the latest phone with a nice car parked in front of their run down apartment bldg (which is not being renovated).  "Survival of the fittest" is the slogan of these streets and the children know very well in their evolution that no one cares or loves them.
I ask where is the church. I don't even care if it moved to the suburbs go back in and live out "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND" ! These all need the good new of Jesus Christ including food and clothes, leadership and ..love.

 The tech/business/leadership revolution will knock down HOMES and run a commuter train through a needed church or faith based bldg in the name of progress but..."WHERE DO THE CHILDREN PLAY"?