This is a post by my sister which really got me thinking. She is the 47%.
When Palmer was unexpectedly laid off from a new job in Florida when we'd lived there less than a year after relocating for my job with Embassy Suites, we made it and were able to stay because of the ability to avail ourselves to the unemployment program.
We are the 47%.
When my sweet grandma, one of the hardest working people I'll probably ever know, who worked every day, into her 80's when she was finally asked to retire, had to go into full time nursing care, Medicare is what made it possible.
She was the 47%.
Most of us ARE the 47% or probably will be at one time or another in our lives.
Many that aren't that 47% are probably out of touch. Maybe they've never had a day in their life where they worried about how they'd feed their children. Maybe they've never had to worry about a roof over their heads or clothes on their backs. College probably seems an impossible dream for many and borrowing money from parents is a joke. Many of that 47% are taking care of their parents, not the other way around.
It can't be them and us...it just can't be.
