[Mase]

If you haven't noticed the ever-widening chasm between the rich and the middle class in America, then perhaps you are part of the former group.

This chasm?

Or this one?

If you aren't, then they have you where they want you.

Are these your people?

[gas0linealley]

In the early 70's I worked at a job which payed fourteen dollars per hour and had very good additional benefits. I was able to buy a new American made pickup truck for $2800 and a house on several acres for $40,000.

Today the same job pays $36 per hour, the truck costs ten times as much as it did then, and the house and land about 12 to 15 times as much.

Not to mention the cost of fuel, insurance, taxes, etc.

You can quote all the government and private statistics you like to prove that things are getting better, but me and alot of other folks know that it just isn't so.