What the Hell is Middle Class, Anyway?

Recently, the news has been full of stories about the shrinking middle class and explosion of  poverty in the US.  The Department of Commerce has announced new Poverty Guidelines, and you can read two separate perspectives on this decision, here   and here .  Commerce says they will still use the old guides for program eligibility and the new ones to evaluate program effectiveness and such.

 How much poverty is there really  in America.  Listen, I live so far below the “poverty line”, you’d need a back hoe to dig us all out.    What is making people so damn poor?  And while were at it… fat.

On paper my family is the poster family for poverty in America.  But based on the loose definition of Middle Class– home-ownership, college, kids in college, and vacation (we went on one last year, woo woo)– put us just inside this holy grail.   But while the government tries to “save” other lower income families… they are destroying their quality of life. 

Here’s an example of real  POVERTY:

Ok, I don’t want to see people living in America living  like that. Chances are, if they do, its because of something the parents lack, and I don’t mean money. 

But social manipulation has detroyed the quality of life of those who live with less in the United States.  We’ve told them that life will get better if you put Jr. in Head Start and get a job, but then act shocked when the kids, and moms, get fat . Or we fill their wallets with food cards so they can buy frozen pizza and burritos and pop and use all their extra cash at McDonalds or to pay for cable.  We tell women they don’t need a man, that they can raise a kid on their “own” with Uncle Sam’s help.  We tell them we’ll pay their rent if they will all move in together like so much cattle. 

  We’ve made available to the poor all the things they would be striving to get, if it wasn’t already given to them.   And men?  Well, they’re still getting their share of mindless entertainment, regardless of if they have time for it, or not.

Maybe, just maybe, we need to stop trying to give the “sorta-poor” in the US everything everyone else has, and  let them learn to LIVE again.  To feel the satisfaction of raising children, saving for a home, or just paying the rent steadily, and know they did it with their own two hands.

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