[Auntie Mame]

Give it a rest, that is hardly the question that was posed!

I don't understand your comment. If my response warrants your comment to "give it a rest," what do you mean by that and what was the question posed?

I really want to know if my comments were stupid. (I might need to go back into lurker mode.)

[oldcomputerguy]

"I don't understand your comment."

Far be from me to suggest you become a lurker, that is hardly necessary.

I do not like responses that are not responses but interogations. He listed generally accepted facts, they hardly required a bibliography. He did not need to be accused of being brainwashed and coveting others goods.

He was simpy posing a philosophical question on the in creasing divide between rich and poor in this country which has in fact be documented by Sindlinger and Company, which provides consumer research to 1400 companies and several governments. I used to subscribe to it.

The middle class is declining in this country and has been for years. This does not spell properity and opportunity.