What The Wealthy Should Fear The MostSoon after President Barack Obama took Office Right Wing Lunatic, Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, insinuated that people were angry and may need to revolt to gain control of their government again. Even if those were not her exact words, the references were sure there. I have given some thought to what it would take for an Average Joe or Josephine to reach a point where they felt they had nothing more to loose. Maybe, to even strap a bomb on themselves and be willing, to sacrifice themselves for something better. Sure, we have the fanatical of any group who can talk weak minded souls into doing their bidding for them. But, what is the word you can use to describe when a point has been reached that, the masses as a whole, decide to rise up and cause change. I believe that word is hope.
The hope in having a safe home to live in. The hope in having the ability to feed yourself and your family. The hope that you can provide all the basic necessities, like healthcare, needed to live a decent life in this world. Hope, something the wealthy in this world, never needs to worry about. Unless, all hope is lost. At that point, I believe the wealthy, the elite and the Corporate Stronghold should have plenty to cause deep concern. It is at that point when the wealthy and company will stand to loose everything as well.
The gap between the wealthy, the middle class and the poor is much too big. The greed being consumed by the wealthy is eroding the one safeguard that keeps the mass population from rising up and destroying everything the wealthy wishes to hoard. The following is an article by Vice President Joe Biden. This was posted on the USA Today Website on January 30, 2009. I believe this article brings home the point I am trying to make here; http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/01/time-to-put-mid.htmlTime to put middle class front and center
Commentary by Joe Biden
For years, we had a White House that failed to put the middle class front and center in its economic policies.
President Obama has made it clear that is going to change. And it's why he has asked me to lead a task force on the middle class.
America's middle class is hurting. Trillions of dollars in home equity, retirement savings and college savings are gone. And every day, more and more Americans are losing their jobs.
For the backbone of the USA, it's insult on top of injury. Over the course of America's last economic expansion, the middle class participated in very few of the benefits. But now in the midst of this historic economic downturn, the middle class sure is participating in all of the pain. Something is seriously wrong when the economic engine of this nation — the great middle class — is treated this way.
President Obama and I are determined to change this. Quite simply, a strong middle class equals a strong America. We can't have one without the other.
An economy for all Americans
Right now, our most urgent task is to stabilize our nation's economy and put it back on track. That is what our economic recovery package moving through the Congress is all about. We need to make these critical investments to jump-start our economy.
On top of this urgent task, though, we have an important long-term task as well. Once this economy starts growing again, we need to make sure the benefits of that growth reach the people responsible for it. We can't stand by and watch as that narrow sliver of the top of the income scale wins a bigger piece of the pie — while everyone else gets a smaller and smaller slice.
One of the things that makes this task force distinctive is it brings together — in one place — those agencies that have the most impact on the well-being of the middle class in our country. We'll be looking at everything from access to college and training with the Department of Education, to business development with the Department of Commerce, to child care reform with Health and Human Services, to labor law with the Department of Labor. With this task force, we'll have a single, high-visibility group with one goal: to raise the living standards of middle-class families.
Over the upcoming months, we will focus on answering those concerns that matter most to families. What can we do to make retirement more secure? How can we make child and elder care more affordable? How do we improve workplace safety? How are we going to get the cost of college within reach? What can we do to help weary parents juggle work and family? And, above all else, what are the jobs of the future? Here, we'll be looking at green jobs, better-paying jobs, better-quality jobs.
Open to the public
At the end of the day, it will be our responsibility to offer clear, specific steps we can take to meet these concerns and others.
Unlike some previous government task forces, our task force will operate in a fully transparent manner. We will consult openly and publicly with outside groups that have thought long and hard about these issues and can help us bring the most far-reaching and imaginative solutions to these problems. All the materials from our meetings, and any report we produce, will be up on our public website. None of this will happen behind closed doors.
In government, as in life, you need clear goals to succeed. In the Obama/Biden administration, we have set a very clear goal: Our administration will have succeeded if the middle class once again starts to share in the economic success of this nation.
Joe Biden is vice president of the United States.
Regardless of where you believe the middle class begins in financial terms, we live in a class base society. You can not have a wealthy class if you do not have the lower classes below it. You can not have any of the lower classes if you do not allow them the ability to thrive. So, I would suggest to all who have the wealthy ability. If you want to keep the wealth you have, the best way to safeguard it is to make sure you keep your greed in check. Show some empathy to the lower classes so that hope will thrive. If you do not, your wealth will be fleeting and you will find yourselves struggling just to survive instead of living a life of privilege.
That’s How I See It.
Websites of reference;
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/03/medical-premiums-burden-middle-class/
http://pewglobal.org/commentary/display.php?AnalysisID=1051
http://www.whitehouse.gov/strongmiddleclass/
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/middleclassoverview.html
http://themiddleclass.org/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6398137/Cutting-middle-class-benefits-would-save-billions-reform-says.html
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/01/11/what_is_the_middle_class/
http://pewresearch.org/pubs/793/inside-the-middle-class
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1882147,00.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204313604574328552267381152.html
http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/03/john_stossels_tall_tales_about_middle_class_income.php
http://blogs.consumerreports.org/money/2009/02/what-does-it-mean-to-be-middle-class-in-america-today.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_class
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_middle_class
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21272238/
http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/01/time-to-put-mid.html
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