The Class-ified

Let me introduce myself.  I'm Christina, a single mother of one, hard worker, and I'm considered "middle class".  Isn't that just great? My label tells you that I'm working, have a roof over my head, and friggin pay a lot of taxes to keep stuck where I am.  And before you even start telling me that I shouldn't complain, I have news for you, it's those of us who don't say anything that end up with a whole chit-load of stress and die at a very young age.

Middle-class isn't all it's cracked up to be, and whoever says it is, is a damn liar.  Sure I have a home, sure I drive a car, it's not the best of the best, my home is small, but it's all I can afford, and I'm sorry, but a little more than 20 percent of my pay check is taken out for taxes and medicare.  No, I don't get a 401K, I don't have any medical insurance, it's not offered through the company I work for.  I'm not saying I'm working for a bad company, in fact these people I work for are really great to work with, but it's a small company, they simply don't offer these kind of "luxuries".

Sometimes I think of all that money that is taken out of my pay check each week.  Ok, I understand that the taxes are necessary to help run our country, or so we are told.  But hell, I'm paying for medicare and I can't reap the benefits?  I'm a veteran, I served in the Gulf war, but I still have to pay for my medicine when I go to the VA...fine, no problem, but when it comes to my child, she's not covered for VA assistance, nor does she receive medicaid.

Like most of you, I either make too much to qualify for government assistance, or too little to pay for medical assistance for my child or myself...f#@k they took more than 20% of my paycheck each and every week, I have a mortgage, home and car insurance to deal with and a whole lotta other bills, wait and even more taxes to deal with at the end of the year (estate tax).  Let's just tell it like it is...Middle-class Friggin' Sucks shells.

But I get up and go to work every single day, because someone's gotta pay for those fancy cars and houses that we put our state and country representatives in.  Com'on people, don't let them suffer, they are used to the life style we have been giving them, let's get out there and work our a$$es off to make them fat and happy.