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alp227 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 10:42 PM Original message |
Many in U.S. slip from middle class, study finds |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 10:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. because NO ONE in the US government HAS OUR BACKS |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 10:28 AM Response to Reply #1 |
20. No they don't. They have the backs of the corporations n/t |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 09:04 AM Response to Reply #1 |
30. nor our fronts or our sides... |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
2. Wait. A family of four, making 33K is middle class? |
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Terry_M (559 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 10:58 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Yeah that's scary. |
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Demit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 12:07 AM Response to Reply #2 |
7. It's a polite fiction. Kind of how a woman's dress "size 8" is actually a size 12. |
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DesertDiamond (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 01:22 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Well put. |
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DesertDiamond (838 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 01:22 AM Response to Reply #2 |
9. ?? When I was making $42,000/year, with no family, and no car pmt, and I was barely getting by. |
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caseymoz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 01:42 AM Response to Reply #2 |
11. Well, when some people are making billions . . . |
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DrunkenBoat (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 03:46 AM Response to Reply #2 |
13. The middle class *is* working class. |
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w0nderer (430 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 04:34 PM Response to Reply #2 |
24. a family of four making 33k is close to if not is working poor |
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Nikia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Sep-10-11 09:48 AM Response to Reply #2 |
40. The truth that seems to be constantly downplayed |
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BiggJawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 10:04 AM Response to Reply #2 |
42. 22 kilobucks for 4 people is poverty. |
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jannyk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:11 PM Response to Original message |
4. WTF is someone making $65k and over? |
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pa28 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:44 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Upper middle class I guess? |
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jkappy (214 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 06:52 PM Response to Reply #6 |
28. You're a riot! n/t |
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DrunkenBoat (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 03:54 AM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Not in the middle of the income distribution. They define "middle-class" as between |
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caraher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 04:53 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Right |
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DrunkenBoat (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 05:04 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. It's the only definition of "middle class" that makes it possible to make rigourous |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 05:25 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. I think it's Orwell-speak to continue to define what is now practically poverty |
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DrunkenBoat (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 12:58 AM Response to Reply #17 |
29. 35-65K ain't poverty. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 10:09 AM Response to Reply #29 |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 10:23 AM Response to Reply #29 |
33. I will admit that I would consider myself lucky if I could earn that amount |
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DrunkenBoat (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 09:27 PM Response to Reply #33 |
35. The article defined "middle class" as the middle 40% of the income distribution. |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 11:31 PM Response to Reply #35 |
36. The different ways to define the term shape the debate. |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 10:55 AM Response to Reply #29 |
45. A family of four making 35,000 is lower class not middle class. |
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newspeak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 11:23 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. and where's that graph that someone posted |
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plumbob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 11:32 AM Response to Reply #14 |
43. Who defines middle class in this way? Certainly not the professors I |
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TacticalPeek (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-06-11 11:39 PM Response to Original message |
5. Maybe somebody should, you know, DO something? |
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Sherman A1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 03:18 AM Response to Reply #5 |
12. They did |
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w0nderer (430 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 04:38 PM Response to Reply #12 |
25. they did do something |
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Dover (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 12:12 AM Response to Original message |
8. Wasn't that the plan? |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 05:37 AM Response to Reply #8 |
18. Like the unemployment rate and stagnant wages, it's not a bug, it's a feature. nt |
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Demit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 06:31 AM Response to Original message |
19. Don't forget, the poor aren't really poor, b/c they have refrigerators & microwaves! |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 05:50 PM Response to Reply #19 |
26. "Those food chillin' motherfuckers" |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
22. the Shock Doctrine, right here in our own back yard |
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Capitalocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 10:18 AM Response to Reply #22 |
32. In our backyard? It's in our house. nt |
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w0nderer (430 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
23. k&r for reading later n/t |
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NAGAUEL (12 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-07-11 06:17 PM Response to Original message |
27. No Middle class? Then they will pay 100% income tax! |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
34. Billionaires and corporations want a working class slave no middle class needed. |
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tawadi (631 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-08-11 11:36 PM Response to Original message |
37. All many parents want is for their children to grow up with a better life |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
38. When it comes to disparity between the rich and everyone else, we're below third world countries in |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Sep-09-11 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
39. All part of the Koch brothers plan. |
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BiggJawn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Sep-11-11 10:00 AM Response to Original message |
41. I don't have it as good as my Old Man. |
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sarcasmo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 10:54 AM Response to Original message |
44. A family of four making 32,900 is in poverty not middle class. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
46. Yet the fed govt wants to let the years just tick on by |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Sep-12-11 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
47. Did they slip? Or were they pushed? |
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