Reply #54: No, I mean clothes from Target or Walmart

[lastliberalintexas]

And you're mostly talking about families of yesteryear. While I agree with your point about frugality, there are real expenses that you're quite discounting. Again, I am not saying that the family making $100K a year is poor. All I am saying is that they are NOT wealthy. No American has the purchasing power they did even 20 years ago, much less that of 50 years ago- not even those earning $100K a year.

Anyone who works for a living is in a working family. If you can be *fired from a job*, you should join Karl Marx's Workers of the World, because you are a *gasp* WORKER. I don't care if you're making $20K, $45K or even $100K a year. You're still JUST A WORKER. If you're a small business owner, you shouldn't buy into the BS belief that you're as "important" and/or powerful as Halliburton and that your interests are similar just because you're business people.

Until people stop thinking of themselves as wealthy when they're not or powerful when they're not, we're never really going to understand where the true dividing line is. George Bush is wealthy. Ted Kennedy is wealthy. Paris Hilton is wealthy. Joe Schmoe busting his ass for $100K a year (and less!) is not.


These divide and conquer stories are pretty successful every time one is posted here. From the way this thread is starting, it looks like it will be too.