[kearnyirish2]

The Greater Depression has clearly shown that those of us with the trappings of a middle-class lifestyle are much closer to poverty than we may believe. As for what everyone thinks, I believe young people have far fewer misconceptions as many of them scrape a crappy existence out of the McJobs available to them.

Here in NJ the only stable “middle class” is the government workforce protected by unions/tenure; they also seem to be the only Americans breeding or buying homes.

[a fool in paradise]

Yet our nation’s “poor” have cable/satellite tv, flatscreen plasma tvs, internet + computers + smart phones + monthly data bills, 85% of our nation’s poor have aid conditioning, etc.

[LostInBayport]

Here in NJ the only stable “middle class” is the government workforce protected by unions/tenure; they also seem to be the only Americans breeding or buying homes.

There's a lot of that in Massachusetts, too. Government workers and college professors, two large groups with an abundance of stability in a financial sense. The taxpayers are always there to fund the present and future of the first group, and if Hillary is elected we'll be carrying the freight for the second too.