Reply #7: A lot still depends on location [View All]

[howaboutme]

68K could still be considered middle class in many areas, but not in many other areas.

I remember my dad made about $100 a week in his small business in the 50s and we lived pretty well with 5 young kids in a small town in a low cost area, with a house, non-working mother, new car and took a vacation.

That was before our nation was hijacked by outside interests, and before the inflation brought on by the oil embargo of 72, absurd foreign policy that was not in US interests, before the foolish costly Vietnam War, before the Federal Reserve sank our dollar, before 40 years of Wall St / business control of Congress that led to the outsourcing of many of our good paying jobs. Most of us Americans are too busy working to make ends meet or immersed in foolish entertainment activities to really understand how badly we've been had all to benefit, as Dennis Kucinich says but a few. Sorry for the rant but it truly pisses me off seeing what has happened to most Americans and the USA over the last 40-50 years.