The 99%

Jairo Zarate

         There has always been three demographics from which people in the United States are placed upon. The rich, poor, and middle class. Many people come to the United States to follow their dreams, and for a better tomorrow. But as time has past the American Dream has slowly been diminished and seems as though it is unreachable. The middle class is slowly being diminished from existence. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer at a staggering rate.        

         Many people risk their lives to come to the United States, only to find that in the United States you must work twice as harder. Sure there is liberty and free of chaos, but when one comes to the United States, its nearly impossible to find a stable job. Especially now since corporations have been hiring people from third world countries that work just for a few dollars all day. The big global corporations have greatly benefited by exploiting third world labor workers over the last several decades, and the middle class Americans have greatly been impacted.

         Today 99% of all people in the United States, are either poor or in the middle class. And the rest, the 1%  of the United States are rich and manage more money that the 99% of people that work so hard to achieve the American Dream. Working class Americans hardly ever reach the 1%, all we can do is see them bathe in the riches that the working class worked so hard for them to acquire.

          As the middle class once was a stepping stone to get to the riches, now seems impossible to just walk across. One must now work extremely hard to even earn a quarter of what the 1% do. Everyday that passes by the rich get richer and the poor get poorer; eventually the middle class will merely be a memory of what once people thought was a fair living.