Middle Class Crunch

Well, I am a member of that vanishing middle class.  I live in a nice suburban home, with a wife, college attending son, my mother, two vehicles and three cats.  If you make a medium income; lets say roughly $60k, at this day and time you are considered middle class.  Well, those parameters have changed; with increases in taxable municipalities, healthcare insurance, and regular everyday expenses that number seems more like $5k.  It is very hard to keep up when you have bought a house you nearly can’t afford, the bank penalizes you for overdrafts, and you didn’t get a government bailout.  Instead, what little income we have has been stripped to accommodate the entities that are quote; “Too Big too Fail”.  So where does that leave the middle class, whom supposedly are the “backbone” of a fragile, unstable economy?  Strapped with debt from keeping rich people rich and trying to help the poor.  Now we are becoming the poor.  When will there actually be an even distribution of wealth?  Resoundingly never.  As long as this “competitive psych” exists, there will always be more people with the “haves” than the “have nots”.  Sharing and community are archaic concepts that are coming to a museum near you.  As Michael Jackson once crooned in that gifted song “Man in the Mirror”, “We gotta make that Change.”