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Define poor. I've seen people earning a million a year living paycheck to paycheck. I've known people making under 30K a year provide for a family of four. High Income doesn't make you a 'job creator', low income doesn't make you a 'blight on society'
A generation ago, people in power used race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and religion as wedge issues. As long as blacks and Jews and women and 'foreigners' couldn't get along or were willing to blame their problems on each other - nobody noticed the man behind the curtain pulling the strings. Now those labels are being obviated so the man behind the curtain needs a new wedge to distract the masses. They have made it a game of the 'barely rich', 'almost barely rich', 'not rich', and 'poor'
What surprises me, is that while I expect uneducated dim witted poor people to be blind as to the game being played, I would have expected barely rich people and almost barely rich people to be more savvy than they now seem to be. Someone earning a few million a year has infinitely more in common with a person earning 30K than they do with a person earning 300M in almost every case. Chase Bank, AIG, Goldman Sachs, Exxon and the like take more from you every month than all the poor people combined.
No poor person or barely rich is blowing the tops off mountains and making drinking water flammable. Poor people aren't turning capital markets into rigged casinos via high frequency trading, almost barely rich people aren't genetically modifying your food or restricting varieties of food to the point where we had to create a seed bank as a matter of national security. Hobos didn't crash the economy with derivative trading schemes or raise the cost of education to nonsensical levels.
Stop whining about the poor or the barely rich, we are all in the same boat.
It's the people in that other boat, smiling at you while they laugh behind your back, who are the actual problem.
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