On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 14:51:40 GMT, "Colonel Kurtz"
wrote:


On 8-Sep-2010, bpuharic wrote:

great article in 'slate'...

http://www.slate.com/id/2266025/entr.../?hpid=topnews

multipart series...telling us what the right doesnt want us to know.

How can a middle class be poor and getting poorer? If they're poor, they're
not the
middle class" unless the "new middle class" are the schlubs in the
"new service economy" desperately hanging onto their walkers just inside the
door at Walmart.

?? uh...if you define the middle class as the middle 70% or so of wage
earners, then they can, by all means, be poor AND getting poorer
compared to their own history.


you seem to have a thing about wal mart, not realizing that people
shop there BECAUSE that's in lieu of a pay in crease that right
wingers have denied middle class workers