At the beginning of this year, I saw a meme on Facebook where a young man mentioned that over the past year, he had learned to stop “aspiring to sit at tables where he had to bring his own chair, squeeze in between folks and repeatedly convince people that he deserved to be there.”

I am continuing a series of posts I have been writing over the last year about working and middle class homelessness in America. The rest are all on my blog:
http://www.houseofperpetualdistraction.com/

This is a reprint from my blog at

I remember hearing through my rushing to get ready in the morning haze, that the President was speaking in Arizona this past week, and that one of the subjects that he was going to touch on was encouraging people to start buying houses again.

Just so you know...