Trumps: White Angry Middleclass

[Tradd]

Interesting that you mention she's a Filipina. Is that relevant in some way?

Yes. Just to prove this isn't confined to blacks or poor whites.

[Tradd]

women have done the not working to raise kids model for awhile. It's not entirely fair or right, but a lot of people will marry and let a man support them while they just raise kids (I have always been too proud to consider that frankly, it seems deeply wrong for the man to be the only one working outside the house - especially it seems unfair to the man - too much too shoulder alone). They'll say stuff like raising a kid is a job, but that has never been remotely plausible to me (it's effort, that is true, but it's not a job)

SAHM are quite a different thing from a 20-something who had a kid out of wedlock and whose family members think the gov't should be giving help to since she's a single mother.

[Tradd]

Depending on the daughter's skillset she may well end up spending her entire paycheck on childcare. May as well stay home and bond with the kid.

Family members are providing childcare.

[JaneV2.0]

Yes. Just to prove this isn't confined to blacks or poor whites.

Thanks for clearing that up.

[Lainey]

And it's really time to stop criticizing "welfare" moms who never got the Work to Welfare programs they were promised. It makes no sense for a woman to earn minimum wage if she has to pay the majority of that on day care. It is wrong to say who can breed and who has to be sterilized chemically so as not to add to children living in poverty. Provide training, child care and these women will work. But we will never know this because this country devalues this population of women so much, it's sickening. As for Welfare Queens, dig a little deeper, they are, for the most part, an urban myth. The majority of these moms grew up impoverished in broken homes, attended the shittiest of public schools, received no guidance that there even are better options after HS, were in no way prepared for college and we expect them to rise above all that with zero help and succeed. Could you do that? Maybe yes, because the users on here are above average intelligence. Some women can rise above the way they were raised totally on their own, but we should should offer a helping hand to those who can't.

Amen.
and would someone provide a graph of government monies given as corporate welfare vs. welfare to the supposed horde of able-bodied individual "moochers"? Let's get this into perspective so if the goal is to spend taxpayer money in the best possible way we can see who the true takers are in our society? Continuing to blame our economic woes on the poor is a waste on every level.

[gimmethesimplelife]

Well I'm white, I'm male, and due to wise thrift shop purchases and loving to read I can appear as if middle class. But I'm not angry......things are better for me than they have been in some time. Lots of banquet shifts, some primo mystery shops due to building business relationships with schedulers and I'm starting to sell used books online too. It is possible that I may leave the Medicaid rolls which to me is nothing short of amazing. And did I mention I'm happily married too? I believe we enter and exit seasons in our lives and I have entered into a very good season in my life out of nowhere. As to politics.....I'm all for Sanders but will vote for Hillary if she gets nominated which no longer seems preordained. Funny but I'm very deeply in love and politics don't seem as vitally important to me now. Truly I am lucky to be at this place in my life and I'd rather have this happiness and my ongoing struggles than be alone and middle class for real. I guess I've even lost my envy of the middle class. Rob

[freshstart]

may this period last a very long time for you

[gimmethesimplelife]

Freshstart, Thank You. That's very kind of you.

[Teacher Terry]

So glad to see that things are going well for you and awesome that you are so in love.

[gimmethesimplelife]

Thank You too, Teacher Terry....Rob