[Leica] Steinbeck and Lange

[scleroplex at gmail.com (scleroplex)]

well said.
and no one is interested in helping the middle class thrive and be an
inspiration to children of the working poor.
middle class erosion since 1980 has been tremendous.
all policies for the past 30 years have been designed to drive more
wealth into the capital markets for exporting offshore.
bharani


From: Chris Saganich <csaganich at gmail.com>
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I think that the middle class has been redefined and no one had the guts to
inform us. ?None of the people encountered are, IMO, middle class. ?Rather
they are working (now non-working) poor. ?One of the distinctions between MC
and WP is availability of resources from the previous generation and
education, to name two. ?WP have none, nothing to fall back on, while to be
middle class suggests there are some non-governmental safety nets available
and some education, Masters these days, BA or BS is like a GED in 1984 and
mostly useless. ?This, of course, doesn't even start to address the
employment racism, bias, and discrimination in the good'ol USA. ?Too be
classified as MC your income should have been at least 70,000 prior to
unemployment and you should have at least a Master degree in something, else
your were just working poor one paycheck away from homelessness.
CS

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at 
lighttube.net>wrote:

> Doesn't seem to matter to our officials in DC..................
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
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> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 7:31 PM
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