re: 3 corporations now own 19,000 metro Atlanta homes

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Yeah neither side is for the middle class. Not really.

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Well, they want to get reelected, first and foremost, but the middle class in America over the last 75 years has experienced enormous increases in living standards never believed possible anywhere in the world.

Are you middle class? Do you have a big screen TV with a gazillion channels? Air conditioning and heating? Not only enough to eat, but do you also go to restaurants? Do you travel? Have a car for each adult? Health care?

Those are rhetorical questions. Of course you have all of that, and more. My wife and I came from broken homes. We met as teenagers in 1979. We both graduated from college, but had nothing besides that and each other. We easily raised four children even though she “retired” with the first birth. I didn’t earn a ton, but we made it work by doing without - no vacations, no dining out, no movie theaters; we took second hand clothes for our kids and did everything for ourselves. We fixed our own cars and fixed things that broke at the house. My wife cooked cheap meals and budgeted for everything.

And we thought we were rich. In fact, we knew we were rich. We had what we needed which was opportunity. We were middle class. No one “cared” about us; we cared for ourselves. Today it is easier than it was then. The reason all you whiners think it’s harder is because your threshold for what is a necessity is much higher.

Grow a pair of nuts and quit blaming everyone else.