Theme Connection

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/03/26/community2/index.html
“Shaky economy forces America to rediscover community”

This article talks about how people are losing jobs because companies can’t afford to keep them, and so these people are turning toward their communities. It’s a vague connection to the theme “Wealth affects priorities”. Later on in the article, there is one paragraph that hits dead-on: “Whether people turn to God or Google, this economic crisis will shift people's values, said Melissa Harris-Lacewell, a commentator and political science professor at Princeton University. ‘Having less immediately forces us to decide what we value,’ she said. ‘Our priorities in times of crisis reveal our core beliefs.’" But, as these people’s values shifted for the better, Kino’s had shifted for the worse. These people are turning towards their ‘families’ when things are bad, but Kino had turned for ‘wealth’, even when situations got worse and worse.