Half of Americans Are Effectively Poor Now. What The?

[Backseat Driver]

10. I am sitting here in tears at this "triggering" article.

I'm an early boomer, and somewhere along the line I fell into the rabbit hole called America. I ask myself, aka ALICE, what was the criteria for deciding who would fail at success in this country: name; color, sex and/or orientation, zip code, education, religious beliefs, political affiliation, occupation, birth order or size and nature of familial social networks??? I just can't figure out why my accomplishments or small rewards were systematically stripped away and continue down the slippery slope of that hole except as a more grain seed full of potential for the threshing and grinding.

You know, I know the GOP thinks seniors are now "useless and entitled eaters," but I have yet to hear a Democratic candidate speak to what was done to boomers who had just enough but didn't pursue the almighty dollar for the sake of financial wealth but considered richness in a daily life of family and community to be enough, to have enough, to do enough to enjoy arising each day without worry it would be the day one's life would be thrown into the landfill of poverty. Just what the H happened???

Years ago, Elizabeth Warren, explained nearly exactly the course of my life of one step forward/two steps back. I wish she would now explain the further steps along that ugly path to falling down that rabbit hole. Perhaps it too will match up and explain to me what happened. Why should I hide my despair that there is no way to recoup - I've already been stigmatized and named ALICE by those trying to explain it all.

Whatever did happen, I know I will NEVER ever vote for a single Republican. But neither will I ever again work to make a corporate CEO richer or be the author of financial debt, if that is what is required to buy a home, a lease that sucks up more than I can be held accountable for payment, a trayful of prescribed pills to ward off the diseases of older age, anything that smells like "new" car. I can't even buy a television for cash or go to a genuine salon for a haircut. Since plan A for self-sufficiency as a senior has gone down the rabbit hole of charade and now being described as hubris instead of trust, I will try another false action plan to be as grateful, tolerant, generous, and as expensive to PUKES and corporate power as I can be (which probably and certainly won't be enough - see the cognitive dissonance in that plan?). I can't afford a health policy stacked against my pre-existing conditions or devices that are never covered nor a pre-paid funeral plan though I do have a LW&T. I'll end up stacked up in a morgue until the GoFundMe is enough to really end it all in flames and ashes. What I treasured in life means nothing to the kids, but perhaps the next burned out family in town will make good use of all not ready for the junk heap just yet.

I have to go now - but the tears are still flowing...