My gripe is with the label middle class. When Mitt Romney was running for President he made a remark about middle class people being those who made less than $150,000 a year. That blew me away as I’d always thought I was middle class making 50,000, much more than some family and friends. I didn’t even know anyone who made 100,000 except maybe one rich uncle. But damn, I thought Mitt was crazy, he lived in a different universe than me. So, you see, it is dangerous to throw around these labels.

Jean Anne Feldeisen
Jean Anne Feldeisen

Written by Jean Anne Feldeisen

I've got my fingers in way too many pots. Cook, writer, poet, reader, musician, therapist, dreamer, a transplant from New Jersey suburbs to a farm in Maine.

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