Starving in America

So, I visit my daughter and family expecting to be wined and dined, only to find the cupboards bare and this hard-working, middle-class family falling into the abyss of high gas prices, exorbitant food prices, private school prices (to avoid Creationism taught in Kansas public schools) and all their hopes for the American Dream down the toilet. Who can raise a family on one income these days? And the Retardicans, I mean Republicans in this country don't want to raise taxes on those making one million dollars a year? They were paying a higher rate of taxes when Ronald Reagan was in office. The tax rate for the rich is the lowest it has ever been and our country is going broke. Coincidence? I DON'T THINK SO! So corporations are on welfare from our tax dollars so they can pay their CEOs million dollar bonuses while these same corporations build factories in China and elsewhere so they don't have to pay even a minimum wage. The Republicans are correct about only one thing. This is class warfare and unless this country wants a revolution like the ones in Egypt and Libya, and revolts like the one in England this summer, somebody better start caring about the middle class. If anyone is listening out there, we could use some humanitarian air-drops right here in Kansas, for I never even had lunch today.