Reply #15: hahahahaha [View All]

[yolatengo]

$35000 in 1970? My parents, who BOTH worked in what I thought were
'middle class jobs' (he a mechanic, she an office manager at a small
business) made about $12000 in 1970. I thought we had it good! Oh,
and I ALSO grew up in a 'Levittown' community (in PA).

On my student loan forms in the mid-80's, my parents' combined
incomes (when they weren't laid off due to Reaganomics) was in the
mid to upper $30k's.

What a fucking, FUCKING, lying asshole. Median income in 1970 was
about $11000 (for 4 person households), which is about $44000 in
today's dollars. $35000 is more like $125000 in today's dollars.

O'Really's story is a story for morons. "Ohhh, my poor sainted daddy
"only" made $35000 a year! We were poor! Waaaaah!". Just don't ask
him what YEAR his daddy made $35000.

You can look up mean and median incomes here:

http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/h11.html

I HATE this fucking class warfare bullshit. It's ONLY allowed by
Republicans. The couch it on THEIR terms and beat down ANY
lib who challenges their shit. Like Bush's "aw shucks, I'm just
a poor Texas rancher that done pulled me up by my bootstraps".

Meanwhile, REAL bootstrappers, like John Edwards, are "rich
white trial lawyers". Never mind they're the first in their family
to EVER go to college (and they probably didn't get in as a
LEGACY, either).

Bigby