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The middle class is shrinking

The middle class is about to be null and void. How did this happen? Everyone is willing to point fingers but know one knows for sure what really happened. This article explains some of what is happening. I am part of the poor working middle class and I don’t even work. Sad to say but I just can’t work a low paying job and pay for daycare for two small kids. That is what my world and others have to face the decision to either give up your check or stay home and make nothing. There is no grey area it’s either one or the other. I think people are working even harder and not making enough to survive. Middle class people usually make between 35,000 to 50,000 a yr and sometimes that's with both married couples. So let me break down this middle class thing. You make, lets say 40,000 a yr but do you really make that not really after taxes, insurance, 401k, and anything else that comes out of your check is taken out you only really bring home 38,000 a yr. Now lets break that down into monthly you should be at around 3100 a month. Now lets look at bills you have a mortgage or rent for 900 dollars that leaves 2200 for bills. That sounds good right, lets add the bills this will include just the house bills (light, water, cable, phone, etc) lets put that at about 400. That will leave 1800 now lets add in a car, insurance, cell phone, and gas that's about 600. That leaves about 1200 which is really good but wait food, child care, and clothes will take up the rest of that fairly quickly. No money really left to go into savings unless you don’t buy clothes. If there is no money left then the middle class has gone to the working poor class because many people make this a year and work their butts off doing it and they can’t even open up a savings account. Yes I think the middle class is shrinking and if this economy does not get it’s act together then the middle class will be almost non existent

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From the author of:The Family In The CarA RevelationTheLordIs NotYourHusbandLord yes, Lover noComing Spring, 2009!Placed in human beings are the needs and desires necessary for reproduction. Along with these natural desires, comes personal gratification, as well as, pleasure. All of these are important to the continuance of the life cycle. Without them, humanity would become extinct.Someone once said that they believed God purposely made sex pleasurable so that procreation would come with ease and there would be no problem in keeping the world populated. As you can see, the world does not have that problem, whatsoever.It is completely normal for women to have desires to be loved physically. Women are physical beings with fleshly needs.For so long, the church has made it taboo for a woman to embrace those physical needs, wants and desires, as if they were types of diseases of some sort. Women have felt the isolation that came with the forbidden, especially the single women.Why has the church continued to propel this false ideology that God was a woman's all in all and if they had Jesus, it was enough? Why hasn't the church come forth in a greater force to make an effort in the liberation of these females? How can a fleshly need such sexual satisfaction be met in something spiritual and sacred? God is a spirit and people are flesh.No matter how many times they repeat "Devil you are a liar" and "Get thee behind me Satan", the needs are still there. Women are walking around wondering what's wrong with them. With all the rebuking and binding, they can't seem to get rid of those sinful, nasty desires. Why?Women have suffered long enough; from self hatred and not feeling good enough, some even to the point of annihilation.Stop asking that your internal desires be removed and just accept the fact that you are wonderfully and marvelously made.It's Time You Set Yourself Free!Copyright (c) 2009All rights reservedBrenda Farrar-EjemaiCEO, Favor Blooms, LLCBoard, United Black Writers Associationwww.TheFamilyInTheCar.comwww.youtube.com/thefamilyinthecarISBN: 978-1-58909-485-7
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The Heart That Keeps On Beating

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You Alone

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Existing

ExistingNoises, curses, poverty all aroundThere’s hardly a moment when there is no sound.Sad faces, stagnation, ambitions low.Nothing is fast, it all seems so slow.Copyright © 2009Brenda Farrar-Ejemai(author of: The Family In The Car, A Revelation)CEO, Favor Blooms, LLCwww.TheFamilyInTheCar.comISBN: 978-1-58909-485-7trailer: www.youtube.com/thefamilyinthecar
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A Blank Sheet

A Blank SheetThey enter blameless into this world, like a blank sheet of paper.New, fresh, clean, spotless,Just waiting to be written on,Who will be the first to write?Will it be Ms. Incest, Mr. and Mrs. Poverty, Madam Rape to name a few?Or, maybe Sir Death will sign in before the others do.Copyright © 2009Brenda Farrar-Ejemai(author of: The Family In The Car, A Revelation)CEO, Favor Blooms, LLCwww.TheFamilyInTheCar.comISBN: 978-1-58909-485-7trailer: www.youtube.com/thefamilyinthecar
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How Do You Really Feel?

How Do You Really Feel?Good morning.How are you?I’m fine.How are you?Are you always fine when you say those words?Or are you being repetitious in your everyday greetings.If you stop to say how you really feel,Your morning greetings might turn into evening goodnights.Copyright © 2009Brenda Farrar-Ejemai(author of: The Family In The Car, A Revelation)CEO, Favor Blooms, LLCwww.TheFamilyInTheCar.comISBN: 978-1-58909-485-7trailer: www.youtube.com/thefamilyinthecar
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Holding On

Holding OnReaching, reaching I can’t stop now.I have got to make it no matter how.Stepping stepping, I’ve got to keep the paceGrace, more grace to run this race.Copyright © 2009Brenda Farrar-Ejemai(author of: The Family In The Car, A Revelation)CEO, Favor Blooms, LLCwww.TheFamilyInTheCar.comISBN: 978-1-58909-485-7trailer: www.youtube.com/thefamilyinthecar
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Caged

CagedFreedom to dwell wherever I treadNot confined to locations with boundariesZoning, districts, busingUnleash me so I can roam freeTo see mountains and rivers and trees of all sortsTo open up and breathe in fresh airSomewhere where the sky is not blockedbut in plain viewUncage me so I can go FREE.Copyright © 2009Brenda Farrar-Ejemai(author of: The Family In The Car, A Revelation)CEO, Favor Blooms, LLCwww.TheFamilyInTheCar.comISBN: 978-1-58909-485-7trailer: www.youtube.com/thefamilyinthecar
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THE STORM BEFORE THE CALM

The Storm before the CalmSirens blowingPeople rushingHorns blowingAccidentsViolenceBody partsWhole bodiesGuard dogsCrack vialsWindow barsCar alarmsCries for helpPit bullsHomelessnessDon’t careCouldn’t carStray bulletsAmbulancesEmergency roomsBody bagsOh! So many body bagsNo timeOn timeToo lateThe world is sick and is in need of a physician.Copyright © 2009Brenda Farrar-Ejemai(author of: The Family In The Car, A Revelation)CEO, Favor Blooms, LLCwww.TheFamilyInTheCar.comISBN: 978-1-58909-485-7trailer: www.youtube.com/thefamilyinthecar
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When Night Falls

When Night FallsWhen night falls, do you have a place to lay your head?Or do you search for a cubby hole or a card board box to crawl into?Maybe you’re blessed enough to have relatives or friends,Or maybe you’re not.While it is day, it’s okayYou can walk the streets or seek shelter in a mall or restaurant.But when night falls,It’s natural to find a place to lie.While others are going into their abodes and shutting the doors,You seek a safe, warm, refuge just to lay your head.Copyright © 2009Brenda Farrar-Ejemai(author of: The Family In The Car, A Revelation)CEO, Favor Blooms, LLCwww.TheFamilyInTheCar.comISBN: 978-1-58909-485-7trailer: www.youtube.com/thefamilyinthecar
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