{"id":20472,"date":"2010-09-16T09:47:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-16T13:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20472"},"modified":"2010-09-16T09:47:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-16T13:47:16","slug":"what-the-hell-is-middle-class-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20472","title":{"rendered":"What the Hell is Middle Class, Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, the news<\/a> has been full of stories about the shrinking middle class and explosion of \u00a0poverty<\/a>\u00a0in the US.\u00a0\u00a0The Department of Commerce has announced new Poverty Guidelines, and you can read two separate perspectives on this decision, here<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 and here<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0 Commerce says they will still use the old guides for program eligibility and the new ones to evaluate program effectiveness and such.<\/p>\n

\u00a0How much poverty is\u00a0there really<\/em>\u00a0 in America.\u00a0 Listen, I live so far below the “poverty line”, you’d need a back hoe to dig us all out.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What is making people so damn poor?\u00a0\u00a0And while were at it… fat<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On paper my family is the poster family for poverty in America.\u00a0 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.\u00a0\u00a0 But while the government tries to “save” other lower income families… they are destroying their quality of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Here’s an example of real \u00a0POVERTY:<\/p>\n

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Ok, I don’t want to see people living in America\u00a0living \u00a0like that. Chances are, if they do, its because of something the parents lack, and I don’t mean money.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But social manipulation has detroyed the quality of life of those who live with less in the United States.\u00a0 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\u00a0fat\u00a0<\/a>. Or we fill their wallets with food cards so they can buy frozen pizza and burritos and pop and use all their\u00a0extra cash at McDonalds or to pay for cable.\u00a0\u00a0We tell women they don’t need a man, that they can raise a kid on their “own” with Uncle Sam’s help.\u00a0 We tell them we’ll pay their rent if they will all move in together like so much cattle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0 We’ve made available to the poor all the things they would be striving to get, if it wasn’t already given to them.\u00a0\u00a0 And men?\u00a0 Well, they’re still getting their share of mindless entertainment, regardless of if they have time for it, or not.<\/p>\n

Maybe, just maybe, we need to stop trying to\u00a0give the “sorta-poor” in the US everything everyone else has, and\u00a0 let them learn to LIVE again.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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