you say you want to have a revolution?

Champagne Taste- Beer Money

     I believe 80 percent of the population fits into this category, including myself. We would all love to have that big extravagant house or maybe a couple of them and maybe a private plane to taxi you between the two. Too live a day without worrying about where the money is going to come from to pay the bills and at the same time act like you could give a care about how much they are because you know you are comfortable enough to live the rest of your life without a worry or care about how much money you have. I can only imagine what it would be like to live a life like this. Most of the people I know will never ever fall into this category. And I wonder if they did have all that, would that ever be enough.

     Sometimes I think that is what drives rich folks and that is they don’t have to worry about today so they are driven to make sure that tomorrow and the next day will always be the same. They are never content with just having enough and will always want more. The feeling of power one gets from knowing you have enough money and more than anyone else is the driving force of millionaires and allows their arrogance to bloom. Power is money, knowing you can step in and buyout a business and have the expertise in place to make ten times more than you have now is for sure a thrill to these folks, men and women alike.

     I can also imagine it is as lonely there at the top of the heap as it is at the bottom. This is something I know about. I know what it is like to survive on little or nothing, to watch people like myself worry as the fumble their EBT cards out of their wallet to help pay for food they eat. And there are those that have no help and a limited income that struggle daily to put something on the table. I look at both classes of people as well as those in the middle who have a good job and kids in college who are also struggling even though they make in excess of 50 k per year, and I wonder why the disparity between the upper class and those below . The middle class and the lower class are struggling to make ends meet while the upper class wonders why we are bitching. 

 

hmmmmmmmm trump?  

      Most are people who took advantage of silver spoon beginnings like Donald trump who believe we citizens who don’t own casinos and hotels or large corporations and considers us whiners and who thinks that the average guy or gal already makes too much money. That we should take a cut in wages or just stay where we are, it is like we need to be able to manage what we have better so that we too can someday aspire to be what he is. And what is he, a bigoted class racist as far as I can see. His daddy set him up in business and told him he was special. He is special; he has a mental condition that allows him to think he is different than anyone else. He is special; he is handicapped in his ability to see the big picture. I feel sorry for him. He has no idea or feeling for anyone’s plight except his and how it affects him.

     This is seen in him and his war against the minorities especially the Latino’s who are in the United States secretly living and paying taxes and avoiding our government as much as possible in an effort to avoid detection, and who only want what the rest of the poor want in our great country a chance to live without fear of being deported back to a worse poverty. These are the same people who no doubt pick the lettuce for the salads served in his fancy hotels and casino’s or who keeps his horses and walks them at the stables he owns and cleans their crap up . Who climbs down in the grease trap at a restaurant and cleans the settlings out because no one else, especially the Caucasians think they are capable or willing to do.

     In fact Mr. trump has no idea how the illegals have entrenched their selves into our society and how we could never find anyone legal to do half the jobs they do , and if, how much it is going to cost society to replace these folks if they were deported. It seems as if ivory tower offer views of grandeur but one gets dizzy when you have to look down and see why you are where you are and who you owe it to. It isn’t just the illegal immigrants he is attacking he is attacking all us folks who work and support the elite in this country who have forgotten how and why they are where they are.

     These are the same people who run our congress and change our laws daily stripping benefits from our servicemen and those less fortunate while increasing their profit margins for themselves by enacting laws that benefit those who are rich, and are the only ones that could afford to benefit from those laws. Free trade agreements that strip jobs from our economy and send them overseas, to places like Vietnam where we once made war with their communist nation and who killed our servicemen and now wants to take the bread and butter from our tables, so that we can be like those folks poor and needy also. Why, so that the profit margins of the rich can be greatly enhanced by Want Too Lee’s ability to work for 25 cents an hour making products to sell in a dollar store.

     It I hard to blame the Vietnamese or any third world nation who wants a piece of our economy, but it is easy to blame those that let it happen. This is an upper class problem and needs to be changed one politician at a time. The trouble is politicians are like used car salespersons that once they get in office soon swing their support to lobbying interests and let greed influence their decisions to allow themselves to stay in power. Few have the character and integrity to govern the people’s wishes, instead allow them to govern by their personal wants and desires, and what is best for them. How do we think people like Mr. Trump would be any different? His insensitivity towards the lower class is already evident, and how anyone would think that it is going to be any different is beyond me. Our only chance to change anything is to get out and vote and change the way things are going one politician at a time.

     As to the gap between the rich and poor, and class systems will always be a problem. But the one thing we have in our favor is a democratic society where by the elected have to have the majority of the vote. Wise up people that is why we need to vote. Now the only people voting are the upper middle class and the rich, yet the majority of the voting populace is the middle class and poor, only we never show up at the polls. There are a lot more poor people then there is rich. We need to get out and vote more and pay attention to the issues and be a force in politics our self. If you want to change the system,  make those that make the most pay their share including corporations who are getting a free ride on taxes or are being subsidized while making a profit like G.E.. We need to stop lobbying. These are changes the majority of our country needs. We need to recognize those people living amongst us who have no right to be here but are still paying the price for their silence in lower wages and fear of being booted out in a moment’s notice like our illegal Latino community who for the most part are worry free.

     We ned to take the upper class’s champagne taste and turn it into beer money and make them work for their privilege, instead of just handing it to them as we have done . We have a wonderful country and it is full of problems, many of them could be remedied by making everyone’s life more richer , one millionaire at a time.