Back to home page   Are you in the 3rd Class? Sean '03   Baggage luggage of lowest concern How do you know when you're 3rd class?   Throw away bulk mail you barely discern When your rep starts to bite your ass?   But more of us find that its being used It's a growing gulf between rich poor.   To describe the downtrodden -amused? On rock bottom let's take a tour.   You know your 3rd class when:   You're a contractor and don't make enough money to pay into retirement.   You're reminded of arbitrary rules of where to sit, when to stand and who to salute.   You're begging on a subway with a oil stained tee-shirt and a hole in the crotch.   You're asking a homeless person for money to get home.   Politicians don't ask you to vote for them.   The INS puts you in handcuffs as you were serving coffee at Dunkin Donuts.   Detectives threaten you with jailhouse rape haven't even charged you with a crime.   You've been told that your HIV positive and have no life insurance.   Your home has been red lined by the local bank.   The JDL sends you a bullet and a target with your face on it.   The renewal sticker on your car cost more than the car itself.   You're forced to train your replacement.   You have a fancy title but your firm collects three quarters of the going rate.   The only job openings for you are to evict people and your name is high on the list.   Your first name is Imam, Buba, Caca or Foofoo.   You've been dead for 60 days and nobody knows your gone.   You live on the 20th floor and the elevator won't be fixed for a year.   You bounce a check and the fine is more than you make in a week.   You work three part time jobs making half you made before you were "downsized."   The only acting job you can get is as a cadavar.   You're name and number is scratched on a confessional booth of a hot number.   You get a letter that you are no longer eligible to vote.   Your best friends can't pronounce your last name.   You've been downsized on a teleconference call after you get a bonus.   You've been videotaped urinating in your home and the pictures are on the internet.   The police raided your house by accident on a tip from one of your neighbors.   You recognize that at least one of these situations fits your life.