Take a Walk in an (Unemployed) Americans Shoes

Take a Walk in an (Unemployed) Americans Shoes

The Federal Government and President Obama continue to use the top down spending method rather than bottom up spending. There is not the realization that spending does not occur as much with the Middle Class as with the lower class. Many middle class families have purchased most of the “big ticket” items and are only spending on basic needs items. It is the lower class that has been the true spender purchasing big ticket items with disposable income. Most Middle Class families are saving disposable income rather than spending it. It would seem that the Federal Government and President Obama are not relating to the plight of the unemployed taxpayers. They cannot understand the “Plight of the Unemployed and Low Income Americans” because they have not walked in their shoes. When you have money and a job, you cannot understand how these Americans are not surviving. There are many Americans unemployed receiving unemployment benefits that do not cover even their basic needs. There are Americans homeless and living in tents. There are families living in cars and without food or water. Yet, the Federal Government and President Obama are concerned with how big corporations are “faring” during the financial crisis. As a country, we are concerned with Third World Countries and providing food and monies for improving their living conditions, yet we cannot even resolve our own conditions of American citizens. Charity begins at home. The Federal Government and President Obama have got to start to think about the American people and what they need to survive in these bad financial times. There is this perception that the Federal Government does not want to provide monies directly to the people. How else can spending be generated? If money can be “loaned” to big corporations with the “assumption” that it will be paid back over time, then why can’t the American Taxpayer get a loan so easily to assist them in overcoming their financial barriers that are really not a product of their own doing, but that of the very corporations that are receiving these taxpayer dollars.