<p>Sally, the reality is that multitudes more poor hurts the middle class since they require services in spades and the middle class is still where most of the money is despite the fact 1-percent of the population is rich and has figured out how to stay that way by buying political influence, mostly. The lower middle class is also going to unwillingly be forced into the ranks of the poor if this keeps up much longer. That’s really my biggest worry about “our way of life”. </p>