Peter Pinsak,
Nazareth, PA.
About ten years back, I was hiking Mt. Cascade in upstate NY, when I encountered a family of four on the same excursion. Mom & Dad, two kids, a boy and girl in their early teens. Mom was a fit 30-something, and Dad was overweight, wearing knee braces, huffing and puffing. I instantly came to realize that the middle age, middle class white male has become the modern slave, sacrificing everything for that most elusive “perfect middle class lifestyle”. Now, with two kids in college, I have come to the next reality. My kids are smart, but not smart enough to get a scholarship. They have classified learning disabilities, but nothing that qualifies for any aid. I’m not rich, but I have too much to get a break on loans. In other words, I’m the guy paying full fare, while the upperclassmen who tour my kids around the campus point out where the “Tutorers can be found. When I decide to stop being our societies “cash cow”, exactly where are the rest going to get their funds from? “After the revolution…”, as one of my former professors once put it.
