What middle class????

[historian]

We have the poor - the indebted beyond their means (middle class) and the rich. Period.

[FloridaPat]

1. The poor are the real poor with no credit card debt because

they were never able to get credit cards. The middle class are like the poor, but still have homes which will be going up for sale soon so they can pay off the credit card debt and then be just like the real poor. And thanks to all those companies that sent computer jobs overseas (including amazingly the banks that issue credit cards), I am closer to being real poor than I would like to think about.

[GreyV]

2. Sometimes it's great.....

About 7-8 years ago I had some really idiot neighbors. A family who couldn't wait to move out into the suburbs. They voted republican and were ultra-conservative in every possible way. Eventually they did move to the suburbs. They made quite an exit too. Telling everybody what they thought of them, and how they hated living with us "disgusting and dirty people". The "husband" made quite a few racial and ethnic remarks as well. Anyways, they were gone.

Now, almost eight years later, guess what? They are back! Both he and she lost their jobs last year, had to sell their house, had to sell two of their cars and buy some crappy 10+ year old Ford junker, and finally had to move back into the old neighborhood.

Hah! Go Bush, Go Bush, eh?!