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Originally Posted by filtherton
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.
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I think I get the "spin".
The middle class is shrinking, eventhough the American lifestyle is better than it has ever been.
People in the world are doing worse than we are and this is bad, eventhough we do what we can to provide economic aid and support to those countries (In some cases even when the leaders of those countries are corrupt and steal food from starving children).
The majority of Americans are not getting any benefit from economic achievements, eventhough the folks across the street just bought a brand new SUV that gets 10 miles to the gallon while they complain about the price of gas.
Thanks for helping me understand the way the other side thinks.