[Homestead] "The Formerly Middle Class " - Commentary

bob ford bobford79 at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 19 08:32:45 EST 2008


I dis-agree with about half of what you just wrote; so , again maybe new terminology ;or, old terminolgy with better definitions would be in order.  Regardless of whether you are better educated than me, we should know if we are even talking about the same thing................


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--- On Tue, 11/18/08, Lynda <lurine at softcom.net> wrote:

> From: Lynda <lurine at softcom.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] "The Formerly Middle Class " - Commentary
> To: bobford79 at yahoo.com, homestead at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2008, 11:17 PM
> Use has changed because talking heads are dimwits.  The
> definition remains the same.  The problem is the average
> sheople hasn't a clue what the definition is and thus
> they go along with the overpaid idiots on television. We
> don't require any exhibition of intelligence in this
> country and therein lies the problem.
> 
> A "comfortable living" is not a criteria of
> middle class.   And "working class" can't be
> middle class.  They are, by and large, by definition blue
> collar.  Professionals and management are white collar.
> 
> What we need is folks to stop being led around by their
> noses by people with less intelligence than some of my
> chickens!  The whole "Big 3" thing is a prime
> example.  They idiots on television, at least half of them,
> are running around like chicken little, screaming the sky is
> falling, the sky is falling because they don't know the
> difference between Ch. 11 and Ch. 7 bankruptsy.  Because
> they don't know the difference between those two should
> we change their definitions also?  We don't need to
> change anything, we need people to LEARN to speak English
> with a tiny bit of understanding of the definitions that
> already exist.  Arg!  Public school has been far to
> successful!
> 
> Lynda



      


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