Sunday, June 24, 2007

Who are The Forgotten Forty?

The Forgotten Forty is the 40% of the U.S. population that:

- Represents a indiscriminate collection of Teens, Middle Easterners, Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, and underprivileged White people.

- Is too poor to be heard, but too rich to be exploited.

- Never gets a call from the Associated Press, NBC News, Zogby, or Gallup to ask our opinion for one of their polls.

- Never have our television viewing habits rated by Nielsen.

- Makes more than minimum wage, but not nearly enough to be affected by an Estate (Death) Tax.

- Use the number in our checking and savings accounts to judge the economy instead of Dow Jones and the S&P 500.

- Know we can do a better job than "W" and the cowardly Democratic Party.

- Could never exploit, compromise, and corrupt themselves to the extent necessary in order to raise enough money to win elected office.

- Has a monopoly on common sense.

- Generally play by the rules and only want our piece of the pie, only to find our piece always have a large chunk bitten out of it.

- Has acted as a witness to history, but is ready to rise and start making it.

- Won't/can't get ahead at the expense of others.

- Always vote our best interests, but always receive representation that only serve the special interests.

- Go to college for an average of 5 years, and spend 10 years paying back the loans.

- Never receives equal value from insurance what we pay into it.

- Wants to be healthy, but can't afford healthy foods and adequate health care.

- Have good jobs, but our salary/wage never matches the rising costs of living.

- Would be better parents, but have to spend more time at work then at home.

- Never has a "promotional code" when we purchase something online.

- Tolerate the "powers that be" that talk AT us instead of TO us.

- Keep the Capitalist Machine at full power as we always try to take two steps forward even when we are dragged two steps back.

- Just want to live and let live.

- Would sacrifice the most to keep this experiment called the "United States of America" alive.


The Forgotten Forty is 40% of this nation that is forgotten, dismissed, or just flat out ignored.


The Forgotten Forty still sleeps in the American Dream.

But The Forgotten Forty is about to wake up!

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