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In reply to the discussion: When Do Low-Income Americans Get Their White House Meeting? [View all]mntleo2
(2,637 posts)I am a REAL community organizer for low income people http://www.mamapower.org. Believe me the poor are used political footballs being kicked around until there is no skin left and then they think it is "funny" to make sure the poor are told over and over how wonderful THEY are or thinking of the poor (or giving some of those tax-free "donations"
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Oh. And PeeEss: A lot of poor people vote ~ I am one of them and have registered hundreds of ...yes, get this ...POOR PEOPLE. But I will say I have questioned whether or not it is worth it since as a poor person ..well ...we are only good to drag out whenever someone wants to use us for fodder about how useless we are. When in fact our whole society depends on us to maintain their own class. I have counted the ways lon DU how this dependence on the poor exists many times. So far nobody has ever responded that their own dependence is not true ~ but there sure are a lot of them (while kicking a homeless person whe they are down) ready to hate the poor.
Here is what the poor get from the president and about any other American unless ~ da da daaaaah ~ they suddenly find themselves in the same boat: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. The ones who find themselves in poverty after falling from the middle class are all surprised when they were most likely the ones cheering the loudest while our safety net was being destroyed. They think they "deserve" it more than any poor person when they wail, "B-b-b-but I worked so haaaaaaaaarrrrrrddddd!"~ like the poor DON'T work their asses off????
Sorry but the president being a "community organizier" is like saying that cattle ranchers are vegetarians.
My 2 cents
Cat in Seattle