Emm's ish

Emily Furgason
8/28/08
Puget Sound Early College Admission letter


There’s a point in everyone’s life where the cruelties of the world begin to become real to us. When our parents don’t always have the answers, or even scarier when we begin to disagree with the answers they give us. Soon after that stage,we begin to realize that not all authority around us is to be trusted. We realize"the powers" such as the government along with various city, state and national authorities, are not necessarily for our best interest. An obvious fact
is that our economy is set up into to sections of wealth also known as “social
classes”. We have the lower, middle and upper class, and each hold different
places in our government’s heart and pockets.
Furthing in explanation, the lower class is focused on for their poor situations, the upper wealthy class for the impact the have or can have due to their wealth, and the middle class? Who’s to say their recognized at all. Similarities are found in the lower and upper class half work, half do not. Weather it is due to the lack of qualifications or lack of the need for the financial aid. But after their bodies begin to wear and extra attention is needed it is given to the two extremes of class system, why? Because the upper class has the money to help provide themselves with care and the lower class lacks the financial possibilities so the governments swoops into to provide them and tend to their needs. The middle class is a class that strives, they are placed in the middle because they work to hard to stay afloat , above the lower class but the opportunities or possibilities to progress into upper class are not available for various different reasons , every situation with unique reasoning. But after hard, long lives of working to stay aboe the poverty line, they find they made to much, worked to hard to receive any help in medical care but not enough to live comfortably and be taken care of.
To tie it up, my grandma is eighty-three years old. She has dementia, a form of the disease altz timers and lives with my family. As any one with a medical infrailment, medical bills are high and not to mention she requires twenty-four hour care, meaning my mother has to be by her side more than 75% of the day. My grandma was apart of the middle class, she made and makes too much to get help or care but barely enough to live comfortably. My mom cannot work because my grandma requires most of her time and energy, the side effects are felt by the whole family. The system where those who don’t work and are placed in lower class but can get all the help they need for medical care and live comfortably in their worst years, when those who work yet cant earn enough money to take care of themselves, is a obviously corrupt system. My grandma is one story, what about the cases where the elderly don’t have family to watch after them? What happens to the middle class ,old folks who cant afford care and have no family . This is a social issue that deserves attention at national levels.