[Southack]

"If two people make $50K a year and one person makes $200K a year, the average salary is $100K. If one person is laid off, the other goes to $30K and the last person goes to $300K a year, the average goes up, yet two of the three are in worse shape. Plus a lot of people have just given up looking for work, and they don't even enter the equation."

Are you prepared to go the next step and actually make this type of statistical claim and then support it with hard data, or is this yet another instance of where you will first talk loudly but then later back off of your claims?

[dirtboy]

Are you prepared to go the next step and actually make this type of statistical claim and then support it with hard data, or is this yet another instance of where you will first talk loudly but then later back off of your claims?

Are you going to continue glossing over the problems that millions Americans are having nowadays? There's an old saying - statistics are like a bikini - its the important parts that are covered up. You're living proof of that maxim here.

[dirtboy]

Oh, and while you're at it, why don't you post proof that salaries increased last year? I did a bit more research and found something to the contrary:

Help Desk Workers Suffer 2002 Salary Drop

By Robyn Greenspan and Sharon Gaudin

U.S. help desk workers took it hard in the wallet last year, with the sluggish economy dragging down 2002 salaries across the board, according to a study by the Help Desk Institute (HDI) .

The survey shows that salaries dipped in all service and support-related jobs last year. Directors and senior support managers took the hardest hit, though, with a 7 percent decrease in pay — or an average drop from $82,484 to $76,805. All salaries, according to the institute's researchers, dropped about 3 percent.

I gotta remember your propensity for not being very clear as a way to wiggle out of your claims.