What is the Risk of Politicians Catering to the “Middle Class”?

What is the risk of our Vermont Congressional politicians and all of those across the United States of American voting in the United States Congress to protect the rights of the “middle class”?

The risk is that the poor could revolt.

After being a student at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont and University of Massachusetts, I wandered westward and experienced some formative years in Los Angeles.

Yikes!

I lived throught the 1992 Rodney King Riots, there were fires everywhere and smoke rising all over the city in 1992. I managed to get from the office I worked in, in Los Angeles, over the hills to North Hollywood, where I stood on the sidewalk with neighborhood school children, staring at the hills, the divider between us and L.A. I was ready to put all the children in my van if necessary, because their parents weren’t home and someone had to get them out of the fire zone if it moved closer to us, and drive the freeway north. We just waited to see if the fires would get over the hill to us. We watched and waited seeing the black smoke rising on the other side of the Hollywood Hills. We were so close, being in North Hollywood.

That’s how I feel now, even though you can’t see the fires now, but if SNAP program food stamp benefits are not issued on November 1st, then I can already feel the outrage.

I look at the numbers of people in Los Angeles who receive benefits, and the numbers in Chicago and New York, etc. and these are not “middle class” people who rely on food stamps. Many of these are the people whose friends and relatives may be in jail or prison, the much picked on lower class, the ones who are often wrongfully prosecuted because they have the wrong skin color or other affiliation.

When politicians vote in the United States Congress, House and Senate, to protect the interests of the “middle class”, they may be voting against the actual needs of the lower class, the poor, the stricken down.

Now, having lived for awhile in an actual “city”, something we don’t have in Vermont, even though we call our towns “cities”, they in no way, shape or form compare to real cities, I see a coming problem if the SNAP food stamp program doesn’t issue benefits to poor people in big cities. They could just go down the street smashing windows and taking food if they are hungry enough.

I urge U.S. Congressperson Becca Balint and United States Senators Bernie Sanders and Peter Welch to think about the incredibly serious consequences of what voting in favor of the “middle class” will do to large cities in the whole United States of America if the genuine poor are left to go hungry on November 1st.

The “middle class” knew that President Obama and his bunch of Democrats only promised certain health care subsidies for a short period of years in order to suck them in to the program.

Today, there are four astrological positions in Scorpio, signifying extreme emotions and potential violence. At least we can expect that the Members of the United States Congress won’t be actually hitting each other over the head.

But, all these astrological positions in Scorpio make it a perfect time for research. I URGE the offices of Becca Balint, Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders to do your research.

What is the greater common good?