Comments on: Being Middle Class in America Sucks.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:31:21 +0000

Imagine being lower-middle class or lower class in America.

Not only are you nickeled and dimed to death; you are also looked down upon by the populace.

By: levi

levi — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:57:05 +0000

I feel its time to bail out on this country for a different one or step out in front of a bus. There is no God because we are already in hell. This has nothing to do with self esteem either or mental attitude… this is reality. To hell with your patting me on the back and saying, “And you can do it too…” BS!!! I hate this country and pray for a swift death so I don’t have to become a socialist slave for the upper 20 percent without having any real fair and equal opportunity. Fuck this country and this life. all my efforts are in vain. It doesn’t matter how much of an overachiever I am. Since I am middle class and poor, nothing I do to try and better my life or those around me will ever matter.

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By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:11:04 +0000

darth, I am pretty sure that we had something to do with that whole starving thing, but putting that aside, nothing in the tax code is an accident. It is carefully contrived to place as much burden as possible on the most productive members of the non elite strata while minimizing taxes for the elite.

By: darth pathel

darth pathel — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:19:24 +0000

well be happy you live in america i dream of being there like you know how terrble it is too live in bangladesh where there are starved to death poeple all around

By: USA sucks

USA sucks — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:14:06 +0000

USA sucks, Europe and Australia are better!

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By: d weed

d weed — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:59:29 +0000

get your facts straight … the top 1% earners in the country pay over 40% of the taxes. Is their anything else you would like bought for you?

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By: Reverend Russell

Reverend Russell — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:48:43 +0000

America sucks… and I do not mean that in a good way.. America at it’s core clings to th religious belief system of it’s founding fathers… Calvinism. We live in and always have lived in a theocracy based on the devotees of the 16th Century heretic, John Calvin . the Bible of our theocracy is Adam Smith’s (another devout Calvinist) Wealth of Nations which Smith cleverly morphed Calvin’s “chosen” theology into a social doctrine that was implemented by Washington and Hamilton et al … the doctrine vis a vis Smith’s sacredly blessed “entrepreneur” … the tenets of the doctrine are never fully addressed… but it goes like this: The “Chosen” IE God’s Chosen… are under a covenant.. not to be broken… under that covenant they are blessed as God bestows upon them a bounty. The “no chosen” have no bounty. And for “chosen” to give away that bounty is a violation of the covenant. The chosen know who they are,.. they “have” those not “having” exhibit prima facie evidence of their “not chosen” status. The Republican party is based on Calvin’s doctrine.. thus, to pay taxes.. is a breach of the covenant that accrue from being chosen.. and paying a tax is a transfer payment to the not chosen which violates the covenant that goes with being “chosen.” Thus our social construct does not allow for any implementation that embraces the notion that “we are all in this together” illogical to a Calvinist AKA Republican. Thus we can never achieve what our biil of rights declares i our due whether chosen or not… the not chosen in Calvin’s model decides.. allocates who has and who goes without. Reagan came from a devout Calvinist family as did all the Bush’s for generations. Until America abandons it’s Calvinistic theocracy we can never achieve the goal of equality… unity… the dignity of all of us to be accorded dignity on the basis of being human. Such notions are antithetical to the core beliefs of Americans in general. So we continue our quest to prove individually we are “Chosen” and our contemporaries are not. In the vernacular, “I got mine, God declared it so, screw you for not being ‘chosen’ like me.”