76% of Americans Are Living Paycheck-To-Paycheck

[love_katz]

145. Your teacher was right.

When I was in high school (centuries ago :rofl we learned something about the heirarchy of needs (can't remember if this was from Malthus or not ). Anyway, it was about how people need to take care of their basic survival needs before they can move on to higher needs like spirituality or social needs (as in social change).

I think it is a conspiracy...the uber wealthy know that the only thing which could derail their plans for a dictatorship is to crush the people who could successfully oppose them...and that is the middle class.

Another DUer replied to my comment about that in the thread. They said they actually read something somewhere, about how the IMF decided that the standard of living in the US was to high, so they decided to level off the playing field. If that is true, it seems they forgot something: they are not separate from us, and the economic engine can't run on the wealthy alone, because the wealthy don't spend that much of their money. They have dammed the flow, and can't figure out why the engine of the economy is coughing along on just a few cylinders.