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5. A meaningless statistic.

Wed Oct 14, 2015, 10:56 AM

Oct 2015

What is significant is the percent of the population that is in the middle class, not the absolute number of individuals.

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HRC : "Outsourcing will continue..." antigop Oct 2015 #1

Do you know the difference between 300 million malaise Oct 2015 #7

Sweet! Soon they'll start outsourcing jobs to us! Orrex Oct 2015 #4

Or we'll go over there flamingdem Oct 2015 #10

A meaningless statistic. Nitram Oct 2015 #5

Precisely n/t malaise Oct 2015 #8

I find our trade deficit more meaningful myself. n/t uawchild Oct 2015 #9

Well, thanks to having 4 times the population really whatthehey Oct 2015 #6

hmmm... uawchild Oct 2015 #13