ù Quoting Bob Rudolph from a message to D.E. Bryant  ù 
BR>    I'm not rich.  I'm not especially well educated (AA degree at age 
BR> 37) - and  I do have a wife and children, and the normal assortment 
BR> of auto brokers and  mortgate bankers to keep satisfied. I'm 56, 
BR> don't have a retirement plan in  force, and expect to work until I'm 
I understand exactly where you are coming from. I was raised in a family 
where 
my dad was a steel worker and my mom was a secretary. Working class. And 
basically, that's what you are, working class (from what you've said). Make 
no 
mistake - I think that working class people get ripped off left and right. 
For 
all the honest hard work that goes with maintaining a quality of living for 
you
and your family, the working class are the ones that get stuck carrying the 
burden for society.
But you must understand that below the working class is the lower class - a 
class of people that for whatever reason are caught in a dangerous culture of 
poverty, unemployable, maybe severely depressed, no insurance, maybe a place 
to
stay, etc. Just as you are trying your best, these people are no different. 
Do you think anyone truly and honestly enjoys being dirt poor? The media and 
corporations and the government do everything they can to portray the lower 
class as minorities, swindlers, free loaders, whatever, and so many of the 
working class buy into it. 
In reality, though, you have far more in common with these people than you do 
with anyone else in society. It is sad that so many of the people who do have 
a
steady job (even though it might be extremely hard work for extremely low 
wages) turn their backs on people who are not as well off as they are. 
Instead 
of looking to the panhandler, or the welfare recipients, or whoever for the 
scam they are trying to pull, why not see the constant rip-off and whitewash 
that is being pushed on us by the rich corporations? 
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