The Common Person

Sundays are a time for retooling the mental and physical parts of the body...  as instead of working we should be relaxing...  and, while that is good in theory and on paper, the reality of Sundays is that we complete the tasks that were started on Saturday but remain incomplete.

Some of us go to Church on Sundays and some of go out to lunch on Sundays and some of us do both and some of us do neither...  it is a day where just about anything goes as far as the common person is concerned...  and no doubt the same holds true for the uncommon person as well.

• Who is this uncommon person?
• Well, who is this common person?
• If we know one, then the opposite is true for the other one...

For me, I would say that the common person is the person who is married and both spouses only have a high school education with maybe some technical training or a certificate of completion for some skill.

This couple receives an hourly wages as both work.  They live in a 1200 square foot house or less or maybe they live in a double-wide or even a single-wide trailer or a 1-2 bedroom apartment depending upon how many children they have.  They drive cars that are over 10 years old or they have newer vehicles on which they are making payments.

Their combined income is less than $100,000 and a range could extend up to $150,000, but that would be unusual unless only one spouse is working with a high paycheck...  for instance, long haul 18 Wheeler drivers probably earn about $150,000/year +/- but most of that income is going to pay for the truck they are leasing or buying.

This would be the common person.  Basically living paycheck to paycheck...

And, while that description is misleading, it can also apply to millionaires who spend exactly what they earn leaving them without savings just a bunch of expensive assets that they don't completely own yet.

The common man is both liberal and conservative and one cannot say which side has the most as the liberals like government handouts because they are poor while the conservatives don't want any help at all because of their ego and pride.  So, there are poor people on both sides.

So, who are you?

And, what kind of person are you when it comes to want handouts or not?

Personally, I can see family helping out, or the church, or local community, but I cannot see that it is the role of government to provide us with handouts.

I think lazy people want handouts.

Are you lazy?