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  • From: bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] [Homestead ] MY microcosm of economic downturn
  • Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:05:11 -0800 (PST)

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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