[Alberta's Child]

You've got to be kidding me.

Go back and read any U.S. history book, and see what life was like for the "middle class" throughout most of this country's history.

I don't recall the Ingalls family buying lots of horses or going on any vacations in Little House on the Prairie. The reality is that life was harsh for most people back then -- and "home ownership" was largely nonexistent until the U.S. government started giving land away to settlers (that's right -- another big-government socialist program).

Before the 1950s, most of the "middle class" in our urban areas lived in homes that they rented from someone else.

[William Terrell]

Not talking about the middle class. I'm talking about a family where the man works and supports the family adequately, and no one else in the family has to. Certainly, there were exceptions, but the exceptions prove the rule, and that has been the norm until the present age.