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Old 07-27-2010, 04:07 PM   #266 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru
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Originally Posted by dogzilla View Post
I can whine about how the rich are keeping all the wealth and expect the government to redistribute the rich man's money to me. Then I can complain some more when the government giveaways end and I have to fend for myself. I can also decide to do something to improve my lot and make myself a decent living. I figure I've been a whole lot more successful fending for myself than living on the government dole.
Um, you're making it sound as though people are on welfare if they aren't wealthy. Are you ignoring the middle class?

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What I find amusing is that with all the claims of the disintegration of the middle class, there are statistics that the number of millionaires in the US in increasing as time goes by. For instance, here Millionaire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If that's contributing to the disintegration of the middle class, then I'd like to see more disintegration. I know my living standards are way better now than they were 20 years ago and better than they were 10 years ago, and I'm just a working guy.
For every new millionaire, how many people have had their real incomes eroded? I think the disintegration is happening far faster from the bottom down than it is from the top up.

I'm happy to hear about your situation though. However, I don't think a lot of people are experiencing what you have.
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