Is the middle class partly to blame for its own woes?

Whilethis story doesn’t editorialize a “yes,” that’s its arguable conclusion.

A woman, albeit a single mother with two kids, albeit in Miami (pricey, but not as pricey as New York or California) with an income of more than $70,000 and who claims to be poor needs to wake up and smell the coffee.

For Texas residents, would a single mother with an income of $55,000-60,000 (translating costs of living) count as “poor” rather than “middle class”? I think not.

Live within your means. Yes, the rich-middle class gap may be widening along with the rich-poor gap, but you’ll feel better in the long term (after the hassles’ of fighting off kids’ TV-induced greed) by detaching even a little bit from the modern materialistic Wheel of Suffering. Stop feeding the beast quite so much. The fact that you call yourself poor, Ms. Suarez, suggests that you are part of the problem.