Alinsky

Power is expressed in two ways: the ones who have the most money and or the ones who have the most people. ~ Alinsky

The question is who has the power in the United States today? Is it the ones who control the 1% and or the ones who control the 99%?

I’m one of the 1% at the bottom of the 99%. Because I am a 65 year old woman who began receiving social security at 62 and who has never been married (at least to one tax paying man for at least 10 years.) So I have no value either as a member of a group of poor people or as a member of the group of rich people. Or do I? How many extremely impoverished individuals make up the group of which I am a member? I can get some idea by seeing the food stamp program numbers. Only those whose income is below the poverty level qualify for food stamps. That group numbers as one in 7 people.

I have fretted over the information that the seniors are growing in number. It seems as if the breaking of the American bank is being laid solidly on the slumped shoulders not the fair haired but the grey haired. I’ve thought this information is fear mongering, but is it really a threat being thrown out there. A threat in the context of: “you’d better listen to us baby boomers because we are getting to be a bigger and bigger population.”