Reply #107: You do realize that the "2nd world" refers to Soviet Satellite States?... [View All]

[LooseWilly]

1st World: The "West"... US & Europe... and Japan. And Australia.

2nd World: USSR, Eastern Europe.

3rd World: The "developing countries", pretty much all of Africa and South America (Egypt, Argentina, South Africa, Brazil... borderline maybe), the Middle East (except maybe Saudi Arabia, Israel... maybe Egypt is Middle East, despite being in Africa...), most of Asia (not so much China and India now, but Afghanistan, Mongolia, Thailand, Burma/Myan Mar, Cambodia, Vietnam, etc. ...)


So, saying the USA is a 2nd world nation implies that we're a Soviet Satellite state.

Divided into 2 classes ignores the 3rd (middle?) class... maybe you deem the middle class to have been... starved back to lower class?... I'm not sure... and you certainly haven't provided even an unsupported hypothesis/theory on the subject.
Did the middle class of our, presumably you meant newly 3rd world, country all slip back to the lower classes?... or did those "middle class" people that Charlie Gibson referred to in that one debate... you know, the middle class that makes 250K/year, did they graduate to the upper class (higher class?) ?