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To: DB
True,

And, the average “poor” person today is materially better off than the average “middle class” person in 1950.

13 posted on 09/03/2007 5:11:23 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain
And, the average “poor” person today is materially better off than the average “middle class” person in 1950.

And hugely better off than any medieval king.

18 posted on 09/03/2007 5:29:11 AM PDT by null and void (I hate to suggest something this radical, but why not let the policy follow the facts? ~ReignOfError)
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To: marktwain
And, the average “poor” person today is materially better off than the average “middle class” person in 1950.

The average American living at the poverty level has a higher standard of living, on average, than the typical European middle classer right now......and for some reason half the folks in this country want us to follow their model?

23 posted on 09/03/2007 5:40:32 AM PDT by Thermalseeker (Made in China: Treat those three words like a warning label)
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