This is the way America is today. There is the wealthy and then there is the
rest of us. The majority of us do not want luxury homes and fancy attire. Most of us
do not begrudge the people who have made good financial decisions and reaped profits. We do not resent good fortune for people with massive wealth. We are angry
that many of the people with the mass money have received tax breaks and ripped off the common worker until he or she is practically non existent and how being rich is not enough but in their projection are in fact the ones who begrudge the very food from hungry children's mouths.
I cannot say the above statement is true for every wealthy person or even every wealthy corporation but is seems to be more the common denominator than any other.
The people who have mass amounts of wealth live in a bubble and have no concept of
what being broke is about. They broadstroke all who are economically disadvantaged as lazy or socialists, communist, and even less than human. We are the yokes around their necks. They feel they are superior and deserving because success and a good education and affordable healthcare was well within their reach. They have tax shelters and tax breaks and say No to almost everything that is fair, not even generous for the America that lives in trailer parks, average homes, attend public schools, drive non luxury vehicles and live payday to payday..if lucky enough to have a job.
The America that is suffering has no portfolio to speak of, but a resume floating the web due to layoffs, high unemployment and the Bernie Madoff's taking off with 401K's.
The America that is suffering and needing a break of any kind paid huge sacrafices for those on the top to be where they are. They served their country to have to come home and beg for jobs, medical benefits, education for their children and decent pay.
Many of our veterans are homeless. Many of our minorities are homeless, Many of our children are homeless or many are near that status. In this poor America, people have to make a dollar stretch it's max to just feed their family. This American has to work long hours for dollars that do not match inflation. This American family has poor nutrition and health issues. This America stares at the gas gauge more than the road
while trying to hunt for a job or get home from one. Instead of partying with the social club eilite, they are fortunate to stay focused on a small BBQ in the backyard and telling their friends to bring a covered dish.
Both of the Americas have one thing in common. They are both human. They both, have children. They both have desires. They both have dreams. They both will die and be buried or cremated and there is the great equalizer. Not all the wealth in the world can save one from perishing from this life. Some will die in luxury, some will die in poverty but rest assured, we will all die. Why can't we live with some relative comfort while we are breathing? Why must everything be about more, more, more for the other America and less about the broke America?
I truly wonder how the very wealthy sleep at night knowing that some child somewhere is hungry and hurting, while a Mother cries and a Daddy sweats. The wealthy Americans will call for the maid to turn down a sheet while the maid may be without a bed. This is not how America should be. It is so divided. Will we ever come together? Will we ever have a fair shot at the American dream who is keeping us down while their American dream is our nightmare.
America
The Wealthy America
The average American
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