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Sunday 16 September 2012

The world has changed so much in such a short time and I fear that the powers to be are missing the boat, both camps speak to the middle class, problem is how many folks are truly middle class anymore? I suspect that if we looked at actual tax returns in the US, we would find that more and more people have fallen out of the middle class and regardless of their background, the longer they stay out of the middle class, the less likely they are ever to return to the middle. Some are starting to talk about it, as evidenced by the recent reports that this is just a lost decade for the middle class. Problem is we aren’t all talking about it enough because unless we are personally affected, the idea of being poor or even working class strikes fear in the hearts of most Americans. In America, we like our dreams, it’s why someone making a household income of less than $40,000 will say they are middle class when the reality is they are struggling and depending on the number of dependents they have are often eligible to receive assistance. In America poverty scares us, it’s why guys like Romney gloss over the poor instead choosing to believe there are safety nets for the poor and even today’s Democrats rarely utter the word poor, poor is scary. But why is poor scary? Why do we cling to clearly outdated labels that aren’t serving to advance any of us? Why do we believe in fairy tales that our hard work alone will make us wealthy? In 2008, many of us wanted hope and change so much so that we pinned our hopes on one man, yet no one man can change the world. True hope and change comes when we are willing to acknowledge our humanity and our truth, then as a collective we can create hope and change for all, but if we are unable to speak truth, how can we hope to change anything? Voices on Class: Shhhhh, don’t say poor!

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