Class vs. Caste by Jessica Girardo

Class has begun on my ‘class’ lesson. According to definition, class is defined as ‘a group with similar opportunities and a similar level of opportunity to obtain economic resources and prestige’ or ‘the structure in a society determined by the social or economic grouping of its members’. What I have learned from this is that our country is the least classy society ever! A group with similar opportunities and opportunities to obtain resources or prestige? Please, don’t make me laugh, lest I forget my place in this class. We have no equal opportunities here, even if you do hang a sign or message in your business saying so. The truth is, you must FIT the bill to pay the bills! And the structural division determined by social/economic grouping of members? Who exactly gets to decide where each of us fits in those groupings? I believe that would be the hierarchy… those in charge of the ‘resources and prestige’. We all seem to be driving towards the same destination: wealth. Guess what? When you live in a country as deep in debt as ours, what money do you think is left to get? It’s not there anymore! Those in charge of it all, or I guess we could call them the ‘class teachers’, have wasted resources and taken prestige for themselves. Let them have the prestige; tuck it in your back pocket to keep, buddy! But the resources are a different story! I don’t understand a government making statements of funding being made available for this and that, but making it so hard to obtain the resources that not a dime is paid to those in need! Why not put all the funding for food stamps/Medicare in one big pile at the end of flaming hoops and a board of nails then the first one there gets the pot?? Wouldn’t that be a more entertaining class for those government big boys to watch? Class is over, caste is now in session!