Blaming the Victim

Dear Family, Friends, and Colleagues,                                                11/24/12

One of the more fascinating collisions of information found in the article linked below is the comment by Mitt that his reformulating of Staples generated lots of "good middle-class jobs," and when questioned about that designation, ol' Mitt stated middle-class earners fall in the $200K and above wages. Yet the stats out of Staples show that most of the workers earn poverty-level wages, a few earn between $80K-$100K, and nobody gets $200k or above.

Sure, we all know by now that ol' Mitt's a thing of the past, an ol' shoe rejected even by his own party, but a lot of the misconceptions he fostered are still around.  After all, he did get that ignominious 47% of the popular vote.

Remember, poverty--like the war--got barely a mention during the campaigns.  One in every seven Americans is POOR.  So why does nobody want to talk about it--even the poor?

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12264-lies-of-plutocracy-exploding-five-myths-that-dehumanize-the-poor

Love, Peace, and Hope,
James Manista