We live in a Country that has promised to stamp out poverty and it has utterly failed in this mission. It is not this county's fault. You see, the United States of America is a Capitalistic union, and in order for capitalism to exist you must have the suffering class.
I will not sugar coat the problem. We invent words to ice things over. These words are usually more than one syllable so that it is a softer impact. We make words like "upper," middle," and "lower" class. I will refrain from calling the lower class by the single syllable reference that they really are. It would be "un-classy" to bring such eventual tense profanity into this article. It is for the sake of realism we will call these unfortunate victims the suffering class.
Before we start talking about the Ethos of my ability to write these thoughts down let me educate the masses who read this on my background. I was born to a mother and father who believed in the American Dream. The Dream that said if you just work hard you will get the things you need to survive. My father did work hard. He commuted long hours for his family. He was purchasing a house, we had a swimming pool and a new car. Then came the dark years. My father lost his job because he wasn't important enough. He lost his house so we moved to another place, then another and then another until we were so destitute we were forced to move in with my grandparents. There were a couple of attempts out of that house that seemed to swallow souls, but alas my father and mother still live in it.
I am a first hand account of poverty. If it wasn't for my amazing grandparents I would have more than likely been placed into a foster care system, along with my other four brothers because my parents could not afford us.
Now I have to ask the question why do we as a society accept that poverty is an acceptable condition? What will it take to move away from the grip of poverty?
Poverty is acceptable because the people who are suffering it are not talked about. They are not shown on television. They are not cared about by society. The Middle class, which is quickly being assimilated into the masses of the suffering class are not exposed to it's existence. They watch television that shows them American Idol, Faux News, and misguided opinions of various other media outlets. Their entertainment bill is roughly two hundred and fifty dollars a month. To a member of the suffering class that would be over 15 percent of their income.
The laws hardly affect the middle class, do not apply to the upper class, and keep the lower class in their place. I was recently in court for a traffic violation. Apparently going over an imaginary wall is punishable by 480 dollars (Two weeks worth of my life, a second of a wealthy persons) and I was shocked sitting there as I listened to guilty plea after guilty plea.
The suffering class has given up. I am a firm believer in you are only poor if you choose to be poor. I think that wealth is not associated with money as some people do. I believe that taxes are not that big of a deal, the money belongs to the government and they can do whatever they want with it. The entire economy really is a joke anyways, perhaps one day I will prove this mathematically, but right now, please, just trust me.
IN tackling the question of what it will take to move away from poverty's grip it is the belief of this writer that the only thing that will make it front page news in when the middle class no longer exists. We already see this happening in California. Once the middle class is gone and only the suffering class and the upper class exist it will end. Unfortunately I see a lot of problems associated with that outcome.
