02 22 29 A New Class of Americans

I was going to entitle the following as; “Where has Middle America gone?” half way through realized something so real that the title had to be changed.

The term middle class American’s is often thrown around like a badge of honor, this term has been in existence for quite some time; but has gained recent popularity because it was embedded within the 2008 elections by our 44th President Barack Obama.

The way society reads it; there are 3 classes of people:

-The Upper Class
-The Middle Class
-The Underclass

The upper class, are the aristocrats who are “uber” rich this group includes billionaires, millionaires, philanthropist, bankers, doctors, stars, educators, inventors, trust fund babies and of course many swindlers. Many choose to do great things with their time and monies by leaving legacies to, colleges, universities and hospitals, and endowments across the nation. While others not so much.

The middle class known as the working class serves an important purpose in the world, without this class life as we know it would cease. So asking the question to the universe why are so many people doing everything possible to annihilate this segment of the population?

The underclass sometimes known as (the invisible class), often living and working and still can’t catch a break. Are often not taken serious, at times are cheated by others because they may lack the where with all too properly take care of themselves in certain business transactions due to never having the opportunity to learn and grow in that area. At times when politicians are speaking they often never include this segment unless they have to.

Why can’t we form a new class that encompasses all three? Or would that be too hard for some the answer is a resounding yes? For the most part the privileged rich want to maintain their status and only socialize with each other, the middle class at times can comfortably walk in both worlds and yet are still tolerated; while the underclass may feel so eclipsed and cutoff and extremely ignored by both. Perfect example the next time you are invited to a prestigious gathering survey the room.

In our most recent tough economic times, there may be a new class emerging that encompasses all the classes; i.e., upper class American’s who lost so much in the stock market now find themselves nearing the middle class. The middle class American who have lost a job along with their retirement fund due to greed by their companies’ upper echelon now find themselves without a paycheck a career and are now living on their savings while collecting unemployment benefits that have an expiration date. Some sooner than others may fall out of the middle class entirely, getting a firsthand look at what it feels like to no longer be in the middle class segment. Forcing many Americans to re evaluate their priorities and behave differently thus changing their thinking process along the way.

Would it be so bad to remove the class labeling system? After all isn’t class partially built on perception? Isn’t “class” a mindset that is backed up by the perception that one has means?

Some recent narrow minded politicians think that our society should remove the middle class, this would create problems of its own; the middle class encompasses so many diverse industries people and attitudes. The politician has associated and targeted an entire industry based on the backs of the automotive employee as the middle class and have stated that they make too much money. It is one’s greatest sense of self that they would preclude that an automotive employee should make less; it takes a lot of savvy to say that about a large group of people while the politician is sitting in Washington making hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The catalyst if there is one is the politician is using his brains to earn a living, while the automotive employee is using is hands. Has the politician forgotten that there are tiers and tires of executives in the automotive as well as other industries? This is where the fat should be cut, some brilliant CEO’s write the rules that they change to suit their personal styles. Middle America never once gave thought to how executives across America really traveled; until recently we all now know that thousands of dollars are used to compensate the wealthy executive and politician traveling under the guise that they are transacting business on behalf of the corporations and their elected base. Middle America is proactively funding all of this, for we are the tax base that allows others to play while we work.

Just think about it for a moment if you remove the middle class, then you remove an intended buffer that is supposed to be in place which will create a void; therefore sending everything sliding downward. I tend to think this is the intended objective.

Also, the politician has put more promise on the wall street banker than any other working segment of our population. Is the middle class American encroaching upon the footsteps of others? The answer is an emphatic no. What one must realize is that the wall street banker is trading shares on the efforts of the American worker and inflating those shares on a daily basis. With that being said; if there are no workers left there is no product there is no trade.

Remove the middle class; and now there are only two, guess who always wins. The voice of the people are embedded in this group called middle class; as a whole this voice tends to standardize industries, will commit to saying no when appropriate and say yes we can to getting the job done; this group fills the voids in all other groups. To annihilate the middle class is to silence the strongest voice in America.

I vote “No” do not silence or censor the people.