Why Aren’t We Angry?
by Paul & Sarah Edwards
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Oh yes, of course, we already are angry. Angrier, studies show, than we once were as a nation of people. We’re angry at the slow drivers ahead of us in traffic. We’re angry at the people who take too much time talking to the clerk in line ahead of us. But what about all the things that are making it harder and harder for us to live a decent middle class life?
For example, did you know that the increase in incomes of the top one percent of Americans from 2003-2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent ? Well, that’s what data from a new report by the Congressional Budget Office shows.
This is but one indication that, as so many folks are feeling these days, that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening and the middle class is shrinking.
Stay tuned for a chance to dialog on the latest news on the things we as a shrinking middle class should really be angry about. Then we won’t have to get so bothered with little things that don’t matter all that much and can channel our anger instead into raising a collective middle class voice for change.