All these resources and 'Merica is still getting dumb

90% of Americans in straight up denial!

        After watching the video “9 out of 10 Americans are completely wrong about this mind blowing fact” I felt it made complete sense. For me growing up I was poor and it sucked beyond all compare. I know what it’s like to have to sit back and watch others that have more and not understand why it is like that. The world made sure you knew your place and that if you stepped out of line it would put you right back there. I knew I was poor growing up, but I didn’t understand why, all I knew was that it was what it was. It’s as if from the get go you are just placed at a disadvantage, no matter the type of gifts or talents that were bestowed upon you, there was no way around making it out of your socioeconomic status. If you were born poor and went to school in poor neighborhoods but were a genius I am damn near sure you would not do anything with the knowledge you have.

            The poor are made to be poorer than when they started. It’s thought to be that you must go to school and do better for than you parents did so you can give you kids everything you never could. Yet no matter how hard you work toward your dreams it seems as if one can never escape the rat race that majority of the nation is placed in.  It was not until recent that I felt I could change the outcome of my destiny. It’s no surprise the secret to doing this is hard work and perseverance, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to go school and get a degree in a subject just to live a life monogamous. I am going to be a Firefighter and I’ll do it with or without and college degree. I decided where I am going to go in life and I will make it happen if it’s the last thing I do. I constantly get told by people that I am wasting my time and energy by trying to become a Firefighter, they say it’s so hard to become one and I am just chasing a dream that every other guy in the world wants. Yet being given nothing when I started and knowing that others had more than me just because, fills me with a passion of a thousand burning suns to not only become a Firefighter, but as well transcend between my socioeconomic statuses. I want to be wealthy not decent but I never want to worry about money.

            I think the hardest part of transcending through classes is the generation now feels entitlement to things they don’t deserve or haven’t worked for. It is as if we as a generation are playing into what the one percent wants. We are so overwhelmed with the feeling that we deserve everything and that it will be handed out as if we were in a soup kitchen line that the one percenters never have to worry about us rallying our combined powers to change the way life is. On paper the poor and middle class look virtually invisible and the only people who know this is the poor. What the population thinks our system looks like only reflects what they have been led to believe; that anyone can do whatever they want. Yet the truth of the matter is, the poor are too poor to fight for themselves, the middle class thinks they’re better off than the poor when in reality they are poor living beyond their actual means, the wealthy do fine so they aren’t tripping off anyone else, and the one percenters are raking in so much dough they have allowed greed to fill their hearts. They would rather out source jobs to sell products and services to the middle class and buy back their debt so that they will forever own American and its citizens. For as long as we play into this, it will just continuously be a never ending cycle!