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To: dogbyte12
What part of a working class family can't own the same home a working class family did 30 years ago did you not understand?

Neighborhoods change. Cities grow. Countries change. The world changes. Life goes on. I have shown you and Tokhtamish countless statistics that prove economically the average American family is much better off... that the average American take-home pay is 12 times greater now than it was in 1960 yet prices are only 6 times greater. But you just dismiss those. No one says you get to live in the same neighborhood your dad's dad lived in. Things change. But there are far more places in America now where life is even easier.

One huge difference here is that ultimately, I don't give a flip about how much people make. I hold people responsible for their bad actions no matter where they are and what their situation is. I have met people outside this country that are so dirt poor and oppressed that it would make both your grandfather and mine look like kings. They have no hope of ever being any richer, and yet... they are more genuinely happy than people I know with tens of millions of dollars. The black community was once like this... because it believed in something bigger than any economic number. Sadly, for the most part, it's not now. And it has piss poor leaders teaching it to blame everyone else and look for happiness in the most bogus areas. (And all of that goes for much of white America too.) Yeah, it sucks that in this world people lose their jobs and are poor. But ultimately, if you or anyone else is telling me they are mad and unhappy, I've got one question for them, "What's up with you?"

100 posted on 08/25/2003 5:10:56 PM PDT by Texas_Dawg (Proudly posting without the </sarcasm> tag for at least a few months.)
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To: Texas_Dawg

The Metric to be used is comparing median income from 1960 to today and comparing the median price of a home compared to today. Not using the average income, using the median is far more realistic than using the average.
185 posted on 08/25/2003 6:40:13 PM PDT by JNB
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