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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

You are right, Lynn, about the essay & comments being thought - provoking.  
Though, I wouldn't think most of us would call Judith Warner middle class. 
But, that aside, it is an interesting commentary with which I generally agree.

  My only disagreement is the belief most of the upper tier will be 
horrendously affected.  She indicates that only the very rich have already 
protected themselves (and they have).  Most of the upper tier, not 
necessarily very rich, will be affected, but will still have the securities 
and luxuries above the rest, just as they do now.  ....bobford


--- On Fri, 10/3/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Homestead] Thought-provoking editorial
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, October 3, 2008, 1:37 PM
> Judith Warner's Waiting for Schadenfreude.  The comments
> are as good as 
> the article. Warner is one of the middle class who
> hates/envies the Wall 
> Street rich. She's lamenting that she can't feel
> good about the rich 
> tumbling down, because she could go down with them. One
> commenter wrote:
> 
> "There is a class below you. Our parents lost their
> carefully planned 
> retirements in the 90’s crash. Our siblings lost their
> homes and savings 
> in the post-9/11 retrenchment. We are bankrupted by normal
> medical 
> emergencies. We have never participated in the boom side of
> our 
> country’s boom/bust cycles. As we welcome you all to what
> for some of 
> you is evidently some fresh hell, let me assure you,
> schadenfreude is 
> alive and well."
> 
> 
> http://warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/waiting-for-schadenfreude/
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> 
> 
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