We, the richless

Kids say the darndest things and coin the darndest terms, don't they? I read this commentary on NPR "Don't Fear The Fear Itself: You're Just 'Richless'" by Todd Holzmanand and instantly wondered why no one had thought of this word before?

An excerpt from this commentary

Overheard in the toy-strewn playroom of a rambling three-story house in the suburbs of Cleveland:

Victoria, 11: "We're poor."

Madeline, 8: "Yeah, we're richless."

Richless. Out of the mouth of babes, a word that captures precisely where so many of us truly are as we take stock of our situations in these distressing — but not yet Depressing — economic times.

We are richless. Some of the riches we had are gone.

We are not poor. We are not really likely to become poor.

It's a crucial distinction to make in an America that has such a lousy sense of its own history.

Read on because there's surely more where this came from. I don't believe the commentary says anything that we haven't been reading and see thus far in this economic crisis, its only putting it into perspective using the right words, aptly coined by children.