Today we take the day off to celebrate the workers of the world, and for that I am appreciative.
So many people in this country work so hard just in order to scrape by. People wonder why celebrities get so much attention in our culture nowadays… Well, for many, they take our mind off of our own scraping-by existence. Who wouldn’t want to work a few months out of the year and get paid millions of dollars for the effort?
But America is built on the foundation of a thriving middle class. We’re seeing that middle class get chipped away at in recent decades, and even more so with the downturn of the economy. While technically we’re in a “recovery,” to many of us, it still feels like more of the same.