At 02:03 PM 10/13/2004, you wrote:
>Hi All :)
>     Ok... serious question which may or may not interest non-U.S. listers
>:)
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>     Everyone is talking about the 'middle-class' ... which Dad told me back
>in the 70's that our family was the quintessential middle-class family....
>Dad worked, Mom ran the house (and with a kid like me around?  That was a
>FULL TIME job! hehe)  We had what we needed and some of what we wanted...
>and we had a great life... (editorial by a 41 year old who now knows that
>Dad was actually right!)
>
>    What is middle-class now?  in 2000 ... various campaign rhetoric said
>that $50,000 for a household was poverty... others said it was
>middle-class... Who decides these things??? and on what basis??

that is going to depend entirely on where you live.  Middleclass in
Manhattan is probably $200k a year, and in Montana it is probably $40,000

>Art "Gas is at $2.09 again... hooboy!! Thank God for LPC's" Bahrs
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>Kerry's tax plans -- including rolling back tax cuts for the rich but
>extending them for the middle class --
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