We all have worries

[Mythsaje]

The richest among us worry about taxes, about protecting their children from would-be abductors or parasites, about their investments, and government regulation.

The barely rich worry about taxes, about protecting their children from would-be abductors or parasites, about their investments, mortgages, car payments, credit card payments, college funds, and losing their jobs.

The middle class worries about mortgages, insurance payments, car payments, credit card payments, medical co-pays, feeding their families, school clothes and supplies, house upkeep, sundries, car maintenance, college funds, utility bills, helping out their no-account sibling, and losing their jobs.

The working poor worries about rent, utility, car insurance, medical bills, accidental overdrafts at the bank, feeding their families, school clothes and supplies, sundries, car maintenance, college funds (if they can even afford five dollars a month toward them, which most cannot) utility bills, and losing their jobs.

The destitute and homeless worry about getting enough to eat and finding a warm place to sleep, and that ever-persistent toothache, and getting a winter coat, and finding a pair of shoes that fit, staying out of the way of the cops, where they might be able to get more money panhandling, laws restricting panhandling, how to clean their clothes, and themselves.


I've been on the bottom. I've never even SEEN the top. Now as I've said before, I don't want the worries of the ultra-rich. I'd just like a few less of my own than I have today.

There's a saying. "Life sucks." But it doesn't have to. A little effort could go a long way toward making this an easier life for everyone. But as long as nearly everything in our country is profit-driven, as long as so many of us remain greedy, grasping, and uncaring toward people not exactly like ourselves, it's going to continue to suck.

Those with the most need to learn to share. We need to defend the middle class, and build strong ladders on which the working poor and destitute may climb higher. We need to give people options, to allow them the tools with which to build a better, more secure life. And we need to stop allowing the predators free reign to tear bloody chunks from all of us every day.

We all have worries. But we should not be letting them dominate our lives. And we should never, ever, allow them to grow even more burdensome for the sake of a status quo that only benefits a few.

It's time to fight back. It's time to speak out. It's time to say "Enough is enough."

No one should have nothing while others continue to grasp and consume more and more. No one should have to choose between feeding their families and paying their medical bills. No one should have to choose between fixing their roof and putting money away for their kid's education.

We are indeed, all in this together. Everyone could benefit if everyone had a better chance. If greed wasn't such a motivator, we wouldn't have people threatening to abduct wealthy kids, or attaching themselves to them like leeches. We wouldn't have banks and insurance companies sucking the very life-blood of the average American, or credit companies denying people a place to live because their very day-to-day existence is one struggle after another.

It doesn't really have to be this way. All it takes is for us to realize that no one, indeed, is an island. We need each other--from the richest to the poorest.

edited for clarity

[That Is Quite Enough]

1. Very true.

Excellent. Recommended!

If people could, for once, put aside their culture of "me" and adopt the culture of "us," this country could progress in leaps and bounds. But I don't have enough faith in the American people to expect this to happen.

That's all I have to say, at any rate.

[Deja Q]

3. More people would undobutedly enlist too.

And those who are not physically able would be more inclined to openly support just initiatives.

[Philosoraptor]

2. Well said.