Living in poverty with children
Since 99% of the Senate and 98% of the house of representatives have a bachelor’s degree, in turn have had entirely different lived experience than the 60% of the country who does not possess a bachelor’s degree. Some like me we grew up in poverty and never had the opportunities others had in life. Growing up in a single mother house in the 90’s was not a pleasant experience, forced off then food stamps, we became latchkey kids for lack of a better term. But ultimately this experience effected the way I and others of my generation choose to raise our kids. A lot of us are choosing to be stay at home dads, as untraditional as it is or more traditionally stay at home moms. People who chose to put their children over a job are generally punished by society, in general we live poorly, in life and have less for our kids.
In America it feels as though just to survive day to day, you need a minimum of two incomes. Than when you have children, it feels as though you need 3 incomes. Just to make ends meet and then give the kids a new pair of shoes or pants, it’s a harsh way to live. To achieve this, we force our children into overcrowded school systems and daycare facilities, where we have no idea the level of care the underpaid staff is giving to them. The majority of the people involved in children care and schools are trying their best, but due to understaffing it can be difficult to give every child and attention they need. The system is overloaded with children understaffed and overpriced, it would for example cost over half my wife’s weekly pay before taxes to afford childcare. at a certain point you throw up your hands and just live off one income or leave your children to become latchkey kids, For me this not an option.
So, what does the government do to assist families with these matters? to help families? to grow the America? To provide for the general wellbeing of its people? Absolutely nothing, if anything they capitulate to private equity, large business and the 3% of the American population that counts as employers, just making the American family’s Life harder. As COVID-19 showed us, the American worker is expected to slave and die for the great American economy, the all mighty dollar bill. This is usually at the expense of our families and children. This been the status quo for the American workforce for as long as I can remember, you and me are expected to just accept it.
As well our economy is increasingly leaving the American workforce behind in favor of AI automation, when automation came for blue collar jobs it was said to be progress. Now AI is coming for white collar jobs and what’s left of the blue collar jobs. is it still considered progress? So, with jobs decreasing, due to AI. More and more American family’s living day to day now.
How can we help our fellow Americans and every family in the country? The steps we have to take I and others have already laid out multiple times, to the point we are all turning blue in the face. it starts with taxing the wealthy, fully staffing the whole of government and to pay down the national debt. Once we begin to pay down the national debt by taxing large corporations, the wealthy, and organized money such as private equity. We can than begin to implant the social safety net programs developed for our current situation and the modern age in America, ending our reliance on social programs from the 1930s. In my humble opinion, a few of the social programs. While these programs have served the American people well over the years, they have run their course and the wealthiest among us have declared war on them all forcing the American people to live more poorly and with less protection for their personal profit. We must enter a new contract with the government with new safety net programs that, one that uplifts every American.
We must invest in are programs like Medicare for all removing the need for Americans to pay private companies for health insurance, removing their ability to be corporate death panels. Returning the ability of Americans to live healthier lives, see a doctor when they choose, where they choose. As well programs like this would lighten the load on both employees and employers, allowing both to have extra money in their pockets to stimulating the economy with or save for the future.
A Universal education program, such as Pre-K to college. Would allow us to raising a more educated, more inventive, more innovative American. Allowing Americans to continue to lead the world in science and technology discoveries. Along with this we must Make Investments into incentivizing business to provide childcare, allowing patients to work and take time with their children in the important early years of life when our children are developing their verbal, social behavior skills and other wonderful moments you miss by forcing children to be apart from their parents. Intern making American business and America in general more appealing to deal.
A Universal food programs so that not a single person homeless or wealthy ever has to worry about going without food, any American regardless of status of wealth should have access to food. Even if a wealthy person never sends a dime of the food money allotted to them, we could recycle the money back into the pot, it should be available, stock market could crash tomorrow and some people who don’t need it now may need it in the future. By restricting it by income you create a system of uneven distribution where some receive more than others, this only breeds resentment in others. investments into 3D printed communities for temporary use the homeless, but also families making this investment would benefit not only people in the lower income bracket, but as well the elderly as they are looking for smaller homes to live in, forcing them into competition with family. Driving down the price of home ownership, while homes don’t need to be free, the price for a traditional style house has skyrocketed and with it the hopes of many families of building intergenerational wealth via home ownership. By using modern technology, we can do just that, drive down the price of home ownership and allow more families a home to raise a family in. As a 3D printed house takes less time to produce but the cost is significantly lower.
We need to stop investing in large-scale apartment building this only creates a class of individual who benefits regardless of whether a person has a roof over their head or not, more often than not this leads to leads directly to predatory actions by the owners of said facilities, we need to increase protection to people who become caught up in the predatory rental scheme. we need to ensure that individuals and families have access to legal representation during court proceedings involving landlords and rental properties, Individuals have truly little protections or even the guarantee of legal representation in the event one of these large facilities decides to evict individuals or families. if you choose to fight it in court on top of the games they are allowed to play with an individual prior to court, you may end up with eviction on your record; as the landlord will have legal representation. When you lose, you get the scarlet eviction and will almost certainly have difficulty finding apartment buildings or landlords who will even rent to you in the future. Forcing you and entire families to live in the streets, car or at best a hotel that will cost you twice as much as it did to rent a two-bedroom apartment. Creating more situations to exploit the American individual and families. Apparently, the reason this is allowed, nobody who wants to stand in the way of people making capital off of people survival or the exploitation that they can perform.
By achieving all of these things we cannot only improve the lives of millions of Americans across the country regardless of location within America, but we can increase the velocity at which our currency circulates within the country allowing us to have an overall healthier economy. Allowing America to continue to lead in the world for decades to come. Our current economy is currently shrinking while only small portions of it continue to grow, namely industries that lack human input or human workers for that matter. as our economy is continue to be dominated by this industry, the American worker continues to be forgotten.
The only way for the American family to thrive, the American economy to continue to be one of the strongest in the world is to invest in social programs. these programs should not be viewed as money being lost, they should be viewed as money being injected into the economy stimulating it. Rather than capitulating to the 1% who just want a slightly better tax break, so they can continue to collect trillions more while Americans struggles. American needs to be returned to the people and removed from the billionaires control. Our billionaire class has become increasingly chaotic, psychopathic, and criminal in nature. This must end and they must be controlled. we should be taxing the billionaire out of existence.
no individual should have more money than any individual countries, The individuals greed should not outweigh the majority of the populations well-being, it is just that simple.*
