In a message dated 3/1/2006 4:36:00 AM Mountain Standard Time,
pilotrob@webtv.net writes:
With "5th floor types" making nearly 500
times what the average worker makes today and the middle class slowly
disappearing accordingly, the average worker can no longer afford the quality
he
could back when he had a larger slice of the
pie considering the average "5th floor types" made only 24 times what the
average worker made back in the mid 60's.
What your seeing is a result of a mass
transfer of domestic wealth over the last
40 years, and most especially in terms of "rate", over the last 15 years.
We're getting exactly what the average worker can afford to buy in terms of
quality these days, accordingly.
Ya know Captn, I'm impressed by your statistics, but as I ponder them on the
drive home and drive throught the new housing developments springing up
here, with hundreds of new homes, severl times the size of my parent's home, I
have to wonder if reports of the death of the middle class are somewhat
exaggerated. Perhaps it's only in CT?
Although I am sure both spouses are working, there are certainly a large
number of folks buying big, expensive houses and driving new cars around here.
I must commute with a couple of hundred CEOs every morning, judging by the
nice cars they drive.
Robert Houston
Texan in NM
73 MG Midget
74.5 MGBGT
63 TR4
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she
meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again...
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