[dirtboy]

Care to show some statistics to back up how our middle class is supposedly "shrinking" when average national salaries are going up?

I thought you wanted me to show how average salaries are decreasing. But, whoops, I just did, once inflation is factored in. And that doesn't even reflect the millions of unemployed.

[Southack]

"I thought you wanted me to show how average salaries are decreasing. But, whoops, I just did, once inflation is factored in."

Your spin is getting a bit out of control. You haven't shown that national average salaries are decreasing. All that you've done is to show that a single technical field had a 3% decline. And inflation has nothing to do with this, and it won't, until we get into **relative** declines rather than absolute declines.