How do we judge the greatness of our
country ? Sit down and think about that for a while. Do we look at how technologically
advanced we are. Do we look at the median GDP. Do we look at the amount of food
people have to eat? Or perhaps we need
to look at the bottom 1 percent of Americans
how see how content they are with their lives. I mean there is all this talk
about the elite 1 percent with the whole
occupy Wall street movement. There seems to be a major division between the bottom
99 percent and the elite 1 percent of people. But what it like to belong the
bottom 1 percent of Americans? Now I’m not talking only about those driven into
l poverty. Many of the poorest people still live productive and fulfilling
lives. To be more specific I’m refereeing to the quality of life.
The truth is that most of us get by, we have a
job, we get married, we have children. We all end of living our merry little
lives. But what happens when we lose everything. Will anyone be there for us?
Will the government take care of us? Is there any hope for those who can’t care
for themselves to live a normal life? Sadly the answer is No. There really is
no safety net for us to fall back on.
God forbid something happens to you , your family is pretty much your only
ally. But what happens when you have no family, or you have a family that has
given up with you. What happens when you family is incapable of taking care of
you. Let’s say you get into a car crash and survive, you break you back and
become paralyzed from you neck down. Now
you have an awesome family, they do everything they can to help you make your life
normal. They cook for you they get you out of bed, they dress you. But they
have still have their own responsibilities, they have to work, or go to school,
They have to do house work. After a while they decide their not capable of
caring for you. So what happens now you
may ask, where is the 1800 hotline for help? But theirs no need to worry you can just turn yourself over to the hospital. You’ll
get a bed, free food, a T.V. What else more do you really need? As a matter of
fact you can even pocket some money from
social security benefits right?
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