5/5 - A devastating series of personal observations where the promise of America is wholly undelivered to a large segment of our population. Each song laments in very straightforward and simple phrasing what should be but isn’t the reality for many people in the land of the free. The saddest part is that all the pathos of social and economic injustice in 1988, when America was at an economic peak, is even more bleakly present in 2025 as we stumble towards a precipice.