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[bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Lynn, when we were young, and even after that, a man could have one regular 
blue collar job and support a family, including buying a house and having 
health insurance.  Soemthing has changed, and it has not been an improvement

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--- On Mon, 12/22/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:


> > So, where is the remedy?  Surely things can't
> continue this way.  That was 
> > my original observation.  The picture you just
> >drew was not so much bleak 
> > as it is unsustainable.
> 
> Bob; it's always been this way. There has always been a
> class at the bottom 
> that can barely get by. I think that class is getting
> bigger, while the rich 
> get richer. I'm with Bev...there isn't much of a
> middle class anymore (where 
> do you draw the line at the bottom of 'middle
> class'? I suspect many on this 
> list don't make the cut). It's the 'haves'
> and the "have nots".  Since the 
> rich run everything, there's not much the lower class
> can do (except elect 
> Obama, haha).
> 
> Lynn Wigglesworth 
> 
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