Erosion of Midde Class Gallops Onward 

Erosion of Middle Class Gallops Onward

More and more families are being pulled down. The New York Times News Service reports these somber findings based on figures provided by the Census Bureau:

Not only are 49 million people in the United States below the poverty line, a sad, atrocious, and embarrassing fact in itself, but consider this: in addition there are now 51 million Americans trying to survive on incomes that are less than 50% above the poverty line. The word given to describe this dire situation is “the near poor”.

This means that all told 100 million people, ONE IN THREE AMERICANS, are either in poverty or in the fretful zone just barely above it.

What does that say about the 1% who own 40% of the wealth of America?  What does that say about their leadership?  They run the country. What are they doing to it?  We reach a point in our country where they and their government are no longer legitimate. We reach a point where we now need and must proceed to accomplish a wholesale, non-violent political shift. 

A young woman of 22 with two kids and a university degree in public administration unable to find a job said it well at the Augusta, Maine Occupation. She said “We’ve got to get the power back in the people’s hands.” The shift can and must be done on behalf of the Declaration of Independence, the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States, and the 9th and 10th Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.

The 1% are an albatross around the neck of the 99%. Their leadership is bringing us to ruin. We must act to save ourselves and our country.

John Rensenbrink

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