The Gap Between the Rich and Poor

I think that Shillman is right when he explained about the TV and the cell phone saying, “I think the definition of poor today is they don’t have a 50-inch flat-screen TV,” he said. “How can you be poor, Tom… how can you say somebody is poor if they have a cell phone?” Because people now don't have much of a heart for the poor anymore and don't know the true meaning of poor. They can say, "I don't have much food to eat, I’m poor." Like you don't have "much" but at least you have something to eat. There are people out there that don't have anything at all to eat, and they have to dig through trash or beg just to get a piece of something. It really bothers be how kids misuse the meaning of poor. I have heard someone say that they shop at the 99 cent store and someone else started laughing at them and said, "Dude your poor". Like it's so immature, grow up.

I'm not quite sure why there is a gap between the rich and the poor. There shouldn't be because everyone is the same and money shouldn't matter. But it does to most people. There are groups that kids or people have divided the rich and the poor with. The poor are the ones that live in apartments or with a family member. The ones that ride the bus or that dress funny. Then there is the Rich. The rich is mainly the popular girls or boys that are in sports, live in nice houses, and dress nicely. The middle is the people that live in n average house, with regular clothes. I don't really agree with these kids that judge people and sort them in categories. Like I said before, everyone is the same and we shouldn’t get separated by our appearance.

If this gap between the rich and poor was to be fixed I think we, regular people, should be the ones to fix it. Simply by the rich hanging out with the poor, middle hanging out with rich. Just to mix things up a bit. In this case people would realize that it really doesn't matter what we look like, were all the same. The question, "Can it be fixed?" is up to us to figure it out.