Wealthy or Not????

 

In reading chapter 27 in Adams, I ran across the whole wealth issue. The book indicated that wealth is what people have to fall back on and pass on to our children. Yet only 1/6 of households has zero or negative wealth!! What does this mean for me?A single mother to two children, working part time, and going to school full time? While in pursue of this goal I don't have no wealth and in fact I may be going into negative wealth with all of these school loans. I suppose it will pay off when we complete our degree but climbing out of debt(school loans) will be the next obstacle to conquer. Reading about wealth and this big gap between rich and poor has just caused my mind to race.





This is the land of the free and of opportunity, but to who?Its sad to know that this is a leading country but yet the amount of people living in poverty is higher than those who are wealthy.
That there just show how much this land is not the land of opportunity. So with that I believe out of the isms, classism is a powerful divider. Many people are living in poverty and it does not matter what race you are but only a few are able to be in that wealthy class.

Its so easy to feel discouraged when the statistics show that the rich/wealthy population are the ones to benefit here in this country. I thought this little picture was a good illustration of what I feel it is.








I know I've expressed a lot of discouraging information and thoughts but I am optimistic. I am very thankful for many things. Although I can not be a millionaire right now, I'm content with having a roof over my head, clothes on my back and healthy children. I know many other countries have it worse and may think we,American citizens, complain too much and to an extent they are right. I think we do so because of the labels that come with being an American like -"Justice for All", "Land of The Free and Opportunity"....so we tend to challenge our nation to live up to that expectation. Had the Statue of Liberty or Constitution said the opposite we would not be here and/or we would not be so shocked to know that the wealthy only consist of a few.