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Love, Food, Attention, Class Structure,

A little boy walked up to his mother and said, "Momma, are we poor?" The lady looked down at her soon and said, "Child please, we aren't poor, we just don't have a lot. Don't look like you missing any meals. We gots all me we need. Now go and take a bath, it's time to get your butt in the bed." From the time I was a little boy, I knew about the class structure in the United States. I knew that on the Northside of Milledgeville in the more affluent neighborhoods lived the upper class citizens. For those families that were making it, but were one paycheck from the welfare line, those were the middle class families. In the households where we only went grocery shopping on the first of the month, there was only enough money to pay the a portion of the light bill, and where you went back-to-school shopping in your older brother's closet was the lower class. This three class system has ruled the United States for years. My mother told me that we were n...

President Obama

It has been said that he is the most influential black man in America. The first African American president of the United States, Barack Obama has really stirred up Washington, DC. Policies that were usually agreed upon by the Republican party, are not currently. Quote from PoliFact.com, "When it comes to just about everything we've done to strengthen our middle class, to rebuild our economy, almost every Republican in Congress says no," Obama said. "Even on things we usually agree on, they say no. If I said the sky was blue, they say no. If I said fish live in the sea, they'd say no." - Barack Obama. We worked too hard to get this man in office, to not let him finish. Calling all Whites, Black, Gays, Transgenders, Asian, Straights, and Mexicans to stand up and let's put our president back to work for us. anditisZo