We are Being Controlled by the Wealthy and the Powerful

In 2018, the national middle-income range was about $48,500 to $145,500 annually for a household of three. 

Lower-income households had incomes less than $48,500 and 

upper-income households had incomes greater than $145,500 (incomes in 2018 dollars).

PEW RESEARCH CENTER

Are you in the American middle class? 

BY JESSE BENNETT, RICHARD FRY AND RAKESH KOCHHAR

About half of U.S. adults (52%) lived in middle-income households in 2018, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Roughly three-in-ten (29%) were in lower-income households and 19% were in upper-income households.

My wife and I are retired and have been retired for 5 years now...  which means we both retired in 2015 before the end of the Obama Presidency and the beginning of the Trump Presidency.

We receive in our Social Security combined checks less than $36,000 a year, so we are considered to be in AMERICA'S LOWER CLASS...  and therefore are not entitled to the best of what America has to offer but we are entitled the LIBERTY and our PURSUITS of happiness...

Who is to blame for our situation?

WE, my wife and I, are the only ones to blame...  we could have lived our lives differently but we consciously made the choice not to by remaining in the South where wages are typically and traditionally lower and the services available are less as well.

There are thousands of people like us all over America that the WEALTHY and the POWERFUL are taking advantage of on a daily basis and are keenly aware that there is not a frigging thing that we can do about.

Even though I have a MASTERS DEGREE IN BUSINESS, the wealthy and the powerful decide what is best for me and my future.  They don't give a rat's ass what I think or what I believe because those two topics are irrelevant to them because neither has an impact on their RETURNS ON INVESTMENTS, their POWER and CONTROL, and how they had decided OUR FUTURE should be...

If you think you are free because you are an American...  think again...  only the WEALTHY and the POWERFUL Americans are the ones that are truly free...  but, they will never admit this to anyone...  because it would not be proper...  everyone must think they have a chance at whatever they want...  even if for 80-90% of us, that will NEVER HAPPEN.