User talk:Dumsky

My concern is what is "Middle Class" ? I believe wed. power lunch had a couple of fellows discussing this subject. I think I was brought up in middle class america, yet today my kids and grandchildren seems to be living way above what I thought was middle class. Being brought up by parents who had experienced the depression, I think their total goal was to provide "needs", "wants" and "desires" were dreams most of the time. If I would set down to write all of the items in their homes that we did not have, I'd probably exceed my limits with regard to this message. I think if a study was made, the groups that were born in the '30's seemed to be "Middle class" after the war--baby boomers in many cases, changed what we thought was middle class. I have no idea how a person would put a $$ figure on what it takes to be "Middle class" today. I would make a point. My father was a pipe fitter and in those days he made a little better than average money and we enjoyed a pretty good life, yet there are many things we just did not do, either we could not afford them or they were not available. I suppose if I took a pipefitter today and the money one would make, he could probably live the way we did, but would the way we lived 50 years ago be middle class today? One item we did not have, was a credit card! If my folks did not have the money, we just did not do what ever. How "talking heads" on TV and the media rationalize "middle class" is beyond me. I know one thing for sure if my mother was alive and saw the way my kids spend money, she would go beserk. Phil and Sue and the gang do a good job. I wish I could talk as fast as the fellow from Chicago. Pisani also does a good job. I try to watch each day for about 1/2 hour. I hope this message gets to the power lunch show. "What middle class is today needs some real serious thinking"