[Southack]

"I'll get you data, Southack, if you insist on ignoring the stories in such liberal rags as the Wall Street Journal about the changes to the workplace over the last few years. But you're just making a fool of yourself in demanding that the obvious be proven to you."

I doubt that you will **ever** show that the physical size of the American middle class has shrunk with any rational look at available demographic data.

Consider that to be a challenge.

[dirtboy]

I doubt that you will **ever** show that the physical size of the American middle class has shrunk with any rational look at available demographic data.

Ah, Southack, it's not just that you're in the middle class, it's WHERE you are in the middle class. If the middle class is considered to be, say, between $30,000 and $100,000 per year for a family of four, someone can go from making $90,000 a year to $35,000 a year but not show up on the resolution of the radar screen you're looking at. But I can guarantee that THEY'LL perceive the difference quite clearly.