White trash. Trailer Trash. People of Wall mart.

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127. Have you noticed that

politicians of all stripes including our President no longer mention that they are fighting for the poor, that they are striving to lift the poor out of poverty, or that they even care about the poor? Obama does not mention anymore his hard work as a community organizer to mobilize the poor; most legislators do not talk about the urban areas in their districts where children do not have enough to eat and the homeless are sleeping on their streets.

Most speeches and proposed legislation are about jobs for the "middle class" who are struggling or who are falling behind. Do you think that this is because for a long time we've been told that the poor could be middle class if they just worked harder, or that they are all "takers" and don't deserve our concern? Is it because they do not want to believe that so many Americans live below the poverty line even though they are working hard like Wal-Mart employees?

Some of the T-Partiers defend against any slight to "rednecks" and consider them the "hardworking base of the American economy." Somehow they don't count people of color or immigrants or anyone receiving disability or food stamps or unemployment in the same class.

It doesn't matter so much what we call them as what we do to help all people have a decent life.