Just Sayin'

Here's a letter to the editor submitted Friday November 18 to the Tulsa World.  So far, it hasn't appeared in print or online.

"On November 17, the Tulsa World reported that a 33 year old homeless man pleaded guilty to robbing an Arvest Bank in Bartlesville of $7,193. The paper said the judge sentenced him to life in prison because that’s what the bank wanted. 

Meanwhile, Wall Street fraudsters, who ran our country into the ditch and wrecked our economy, continue to get ‘golden parachutes’ worth millions instead of hard time in a ‘federal gated community.’  

Meanwhile, the twelfth richest man in America, who spent $250 million of his own money to become mayor of New York City, had his police department arrest Occupy Wall Street demonstrators exercising their rights and confiscate their personal possessions, including books. The score of arrests nationwide is demonstrators, 1,000+, fraudsters 0. 

Meanwhile, the census bureau reports the middle class shrunk to less than half of our population. Does this mean that the majority of our country is made up of the poor and the rich? 

Now, I hear some families who are struggling to get into the middle class are beginning to wonder, “if you want a piece of the American Dream, you’ll have to go to Finland to find it.”"

Just sayin’