They own a home, have two vehicles, one blackberry, have two jobs, get medical care. I am sure they eat. What’s the problem? Our grandparents would feel blessed.
Damn right. These folks are "near poor" only in that they're in the same boat an awful lot of people were in throughout the fifties and sixties while they were raising their children and putting decent housing ahead of other things. Only when everyone started looking at their house as a sort of slot machine they could milk for cash to live beyond their income did most people begin to think that middle class folks were supposed to have an abundance of disposable income. Until the equity loan craze came along, everyone expected to have to budget and save for things like birthdays, vacations, and Christmas.
I always thought it was so funny when after the democrat fascist preached the "decade of greed" bunk throughout the eighties that they bragged about prosperity during the nineties while people were borrowing every cent they could to live beyond their means.
Did you miss the part where their cars are at least 12 years old each????