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Originally Posted by aceventura3
Dear Mr Average American:
How many cars do you have?
How many television sets?
What is the square footage of your residence?
How many hours a week do you work?
How much do you spend on TV?
How many times per week do you eat out?
How many computer devices do you have (PC's, Ipods, Xboxs, DVD players)?
Do you eat healthy foods? Get excercise?
How many prescription drugs do you take?
How much time or money do you donate to good causes?
How much do you save?
Do you vote? Ever run for an elected office?
Involved in the PTA?
How frequently do you read to your children? Go to the library?
Do you go to you city councel meetings? School board?
Have you taken time to enhance your work skills? Or, taken the time to learn something new?
I could go on and on with the questions.
Mr. Average American, if you actually chose to answer them or at least think about them, you will find that your life is not so bad. And on top of that, you will find that the things you complain about are in your control.
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Nobody's life is that bad. If "Oh, your life isn't so bad" were sound economic policy we wouldn't have to come up with complicated ways to shrink the middle class such as "supply side economics". We could embrace socialism and our lives wouldn't be all that bad compared to the lives people wallowing in disease and famine in third world countries. All i'm wondering is when the economic "achievements" of late will actually start to mean anything significant to the majority of americans in an economic sense. Otherwise, i don't really feel like much has been achieved at all.