a crank’s progress

I watch debates — so you don’t have to:

Steve Skvara, a retired steel worker from Indiana, with tears in his eyes, asked a poignant, powerful question. (TP has a clip)
“After 34 years with LTV Steel, I was forced to retire because of a disability. Two years later, LTV filed bankruptcy. I lost a third of my pension, and my family lost their health care.
“Every day of my life I sit at the kitchen table across from the woman who devoted 36 years of her life to my family, and I can’t afford to pay for her health care. What’s wrong with America, and what will you do to change it?”