[cripplecreek]

I spent a summer in northern Michigan living in an old trailer with no water or electricity while earning enough to get started on rent for a house.

I used to tell my girlfriend “Someday I’ll earn enough money to take you to McDonalds and we’ll even go inside and have a regular sit down meal.”

[Sea Parrot]

LOL. I too can remember when McDonalds was considered an extravagant pleasure.

[KC Burke]

I have a little weekend place in the Ozarks. I recently described it to someone by citing small shacks to mansions in the area and telling him that up the hill from me was a guy that I thought was cooking meth and he was more honest and civil than the banker that lived six places downhill.

The proletariat is not the poor. The proletariat is the portion of the population that gives nothing to society but its progeny.