Posts
One of the media exceptions to this is the Huffington Post. Over the past year or two I have become quite a fan of this internet journal. The heart of America is poured out daily under the watchful eyes and compassionate soul of Arianna Huffington, a Greek immigrant who has achieved the American Dream and has made it her responsibility to report on the serious consequences of its disintegration.
I recently started reading her current book(audio book) in which she attempts to raise the volume about this situation. It is called Third World America. While trying to maintain a positive attitude she never the less warns of the perilous road we are traveling down. This is not an indictment of the upper class so much as it is a warning that the destruction of the middle class could lead to a vastly different America. One in which no one is exempt from pain. It boggles my mind that so few in the media expound on this story on a regular basis.
Since I believe in grass roots movements being able to have significant impact on society, politics, etc., I have decided to create a movement which hopefully moves the conversation to the next level. Individual Americans have a profound way of expressing the situations they find themselves in far better than authors or columnists or even bloggers.
I am addressing this blog post to the American middle class. I would like to hear from you about how the economy has impacted you and your journey towards the American Dream. Please email a brief letter to me. I will make it my responsibility to reprint your letters with the hope that the ship of state can be set back in the right direction. And if I get enough of a response I will also read your letters on YouTube, every day if necessary.
Please let everyone you know of my intentions and pass on the email address. I will continue with this endeavor until there is no longer a need to do so.
Send your emails to lettersfromthemiddleclass@gmail.com
Allen Bauman
3rd World America--Ariana Huffington
